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Tobin S.

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6. I've heard the idea expressed that
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:30 PM
Mar 2018

pretty much any religion with a male deity as the supreme god is bad for women. That would probably be most of them. But what they are talking about isn't the reality of God, but a demiurge- a false concept of a supreme being formed by a culture. Those kinds of concepts are easily knocked down and that's what most non-believers see through, and rightly so. Religious fundamentalism is a relatively new development, and I think it is a symptom of a lost culture.

My wife, a Christian, thinks that God is ultimately beyond gender. I share that view. I think God can be found in everyone, male or female...and believer or non-believer.

I think it is just as appropriate for a person to speak of God as a female as well as a male.

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