RE: Why are angels always males?
April 11, 2021 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2021 at 2:16 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
What we were told (approximately - Sunday School was a long time ago):
‘Angels are beings of spirit and are therefore sexless and genderless. In their dealings with humans, however, they can take on an appropriate form. An angel fulfilling the role of a warrior, messenger, or prophet will assume a male persona, as these were traditionally male functions. Doing so allowed them to better interact with human beings.’
It’s interesting to note, though, that the customary universal maleness of angelic beings is peculiar to the Abrahamic religions. Plenty of other faiths have beings that fulfill the function and station of angels (not quite gods, not quite people) who either have specific sexes or no sexual identification at all.
Boru
‘Angels are beings of spirit and are therefore sexless and genderless. In their dealings with humans, however, they can take on an appropriate form. An angel fulfilling the role of a warrior, messenger, or prophet will assume a male persona, as these were traditionally male functions. Doing so allowed them to better interact with human beings.’
It’s interesting to note, though, that the customary universal maleness of angelic beings is peculiar to the Abrahamic religions. Plenty of other faiths have beings that fulfill the function and station of angels (not quite gods, not quite people) who either have specific sexes or no sexual identification at all.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson