Is God MALE or FEMALE?
By vinzen
@vinzen (1020)
India
July 22, 2007 1:08pm CST
We generally refer to God as HE. I talk to girls and women, they all refer to God as HE. I wonder why is that? Should GOD be referred as such? Or is it just a result of the male dominance in the society for thousands of years. But I see no females complaining about the issue.
Please help clarify my doubts. Thank you.
2 responses
@oldiebut (859)
• Canada
22 Jul 07
No, not at all. I am merely looking at the history and trying to find one that has a head deity figure who is female. China, Egypt, Rome, Greek, Celtic, Wiccan (tricky that one, is Mother Earth a concept or an entity?), none of these have a female chief of gods. Now, if we consider who created the gods in these cases, who would have supported and generally benefitted from them, we see that it is a pretty big male club.
I can think of no reason that a woman cannot be the head of a major religion other than the internal conflicts of some religions. My initial post refers to deities only.