Do you have a problem with males refering to God as "he" and females refering to God as "she"?

| have a problem with girls having to refer to what is commonly known as God as, exclusively, a ‘He’. Why and how should this be?

nope no problem people believe what they want to..what ever makes em happy is fine by me…i dont believe in god anyway so i guess for me its a bit of a moot point

Not really. I refer to the Easter Bunny as he and the Tooth Fairy as she. Those three are all about the same, right?

I have never heard girls call God “she”, only as “he”, is this a new thing?

No. I think they should refer to god in whatever way they relate to him or her or it or they.

I thought only feminists call God ‘she’

@teh_kvlt_liberal Not all feminists are female.

@lloydbird I know. Kurt Cobain was a feminist

God chose to reveal himself (lol) to us as a he. Obviously he doesn’t have genitalia or a physical body for that matter. His essence contains both male and female qualities but i guess i just go with what he told us to call him. i guess it might be better to call him “It”.

@teh_kvlt_liberal I didn’t know that. But am glad to.

omg god is a streaker? well either way god hasnt yet revealed himself to me unless he was a random fat guy who flashed me in a pub..cant say i was moved if he was

@jaketheripper “God chose to reveal himself (lol) to us as he.” I bet some ‘he’ told you that.

yeh i try really hard to be open minded about religion but when deeply religious people start talking its painfully apparent to me that they are bonkers

@lloydbird lol umm I believe I got it from the Bible. Would you prefer he be only called she? God wasn’t trying to be sexist. The relationship we have with him is most like that of a father. But in the Bible it also describes God as a hen who wants to protect his chicks under his wing. So it’s obvious God isn’t a “man”.

@jaketheripper “Would you prefer he be only called she?” – The clue is in the question.
If such a thing as God exists (which I neither affirm nor deny), then why should it be exclusively one sex? It just doesn’t sit well with me. And I doubt that I’m alone in this.

@lloydbird ok I see what you are saying. I don’t think most people truly believe that God is a man. Since sex is a biological division God wouldn’t fall on either side. I think he chose to be a he to allow us to relate to him better.

Well if an omnipotent/omniscient God does happen to exist he/she is likely neither a he or a she. He is an it. Something other than male or female. Generally speaking the difference between males and females are their sexual characteristics. Why would God have sexual characteristics if he/she/it can simply speak things into existence.

@jaketheripper Do you think that “he” would be offended at you if you called “him” ‘it’?

@critter1982 Nicely put.

@lloydbird to be honest im not sure. He chose to be represented that way in the Bible so part of me says no. I guess it would depend on your motive. I don’t think he would be that mad if it was a sincere attempt to better relate, but if it’s just a gender power game then yes.

@jaketheripper What do you mean by a ”..gender power game..”?

lol im gonna get in trouble…. here goes nothing
If you feel like its not fair that god is called a man and that its a tool men use to oppress women and that you intend to rectify that by calling God a she then i don’t that’s beneficial

@jaketheripper: I absolutely agree with you, but on the other hand if men are actually using god as a man to oppress women then that’s not beneficial either.

Since God is neither He nor She, it really doesn’t matter which word you use.

@PerryDolia Yes, but the word ‘He’ is extremely predominantly used. So surely it does matter. If only for the sake of balance.

So is God an “it”?

@Tink1113 The IT. (?)

@lloydbird lol

@lloydbird
I guess I should have said, “It really doesn’t matter to me” since they are both inaccurate.

@Tink1113
God is an “IS”

I always heard it in a joking manner that someone said god was a ‘she’
obviously god doesn’t have a gender
not that i believe in god

@Mozart Years ago I heard a woman say “thank godess”, I think it was her version of “thank god”.