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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:00:41 GMT
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sgore@superonline.com/saynotospam/
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> > Dan Boger wrote:
> > > well now. I've decided years ago that if there is such a thing as god,
> > > I'd refer to it as a she, just because that will make things more
> > > interesting. I never said that said God is the one mentioned in the
> > > Bible, or the Koran, or the Tora... as my wife rightly points out, who
> > > cares what chromosomes God has, if it's xx or xy? why would god even
> > > have a gender?
> >
> > You've decided that God is a she just to make things more interesting.
> > That's about as rational as me calling you "Rebecca" just to make things
> > more interesting. You may say that's OK, I can call you what I want, but
> > the fact remains that it is not who you are. Calling someone by a different
> > name or different gender just to make things interesting is arrogant.
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> Say, this bring up an interesting point (for me, anyway). I'm curious about
> something...
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> Over my lifetime, I've heard God referred to as He millions of times, and in
> more recent years, occasionally I've heard Him referred to as She, but I
> don't think I've ever heard God referred to yet as It or Thon.
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> To a theist, would someone referring to God as It (rather than He) be
> considered insulting, or would it be flattering since it acknowledged that
> God is more than human and doesn't necessarily need a gender?
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> A second question -- which is more insulting: She or It? That is, is it
> worse for God to be female than to be genderless?
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> --Todd
It's just an European language thing isn't it? We have only one word for
third singular person in Turkish, "o". So a Turkish speaking christian
it doesn't make any difference, if that thing called god is a male,
female or neither.
Isn't it also make things looking much more stupid? There is a supreme
being, and besides materializing as having a human body, he/she/it also
have gender. There is also a "semi-god" thing, a son of a god. This is
not coinciding with being a supreme thing. Any possibility of being
influenced from Roman/Greek Parthenon(sp?)?
Selçuk
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