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God is a Girl?
May 14, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Recently I over heard some mutual acquaintances of mine discussing the idea of god being a female. My first thought was "Okay, assuming god exists, why would she make everyone of her gender be oppressed for thousands of years and still allow them to be oppressed today?" Later I revisited the topic in my mind: "Well its quite clear that whatever god is, it is not benevolent or at least it is apathetic to people's suffering. In fetal development, humans start out as female and either stay that way or then become male. Its also true that god is the spiritual embodiment of the emotional political archetype (a reference to Plato's philosophy on politics, where he states that the three fundamental archetypes for political leaders are "greed driven" "emotion driven" or "Knowledge driven".) and so of course females tend to be more emotional, or rather more likely and better at expressing their emotions."
So there it is. If god was more than a concept created by cave men for fear of the fact that the universe is a chaotic desolace, and it had a gender, I think it would be a female. Any thoughts?
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RE: God is a Girl?
May 14, 2012 at 6:37 pm
Gender serves the purpose of reproduction. Why would "god" have a gender?
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RE: God is a Girl?
May 14, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Well, assuming there was a Christian god and the god was female, the writers of the book were such womanhaters, they might've changed it to the "superior" male sex.
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RE: God is a Girl?
May 14, 2012 at 9:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2012 at 9:25 pm by AthiestAtheist.)
Can you believe it? Can you receive it?
Before I went atheist, I always thought God was female because only females are capable of directly producing life, and thought that most people were stupid because they refused to accept this. Eventually I realized that most people were just stupid for believing in God.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: God is a Girl?
May 15, 2012 at 9:30 pm
If God was a woman, that would certainly explain the mood swings you see in the Bible.
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