Does God have a gender?

Anything to do with gender and the status of women and men.

Moderators: AMod, iMod

Belinda
Posts: 8034
Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2016 10:13 am

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Belinda »

Iwannaplato wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:20 am
Belinda wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:53 am The maleness of God is bound up in the popular story of magical intervention by a powerful deity, the more powerful as masculinity, for historical reasons, carries magically superior social status.
It depends how the individuals and cultures and subcultures view power and then men and women. Fecundity is a power that is cherished by many cultures and often seen as the most important. Which is likely why, on some subconscious level, the monotheisms had a male deity forming people out of nothingness (Adam and Eve) (whereas parthenogenesis occurs in other religions) or more or less leaving the woman out of the genetics of birth (Mary).
Gotta get those crops in, find those edible animals and gatherable foods in nature. Gotta have babies. That's a power (often female deity powers) that seems to make men more uneasy then penis envy does women.
Certainly fecundity was valued but so were cattle! Males were the sex that got to do the higher status work like hunting and defence while females carried babies and worked at spinning, and hoeing crops, and tending animals. Even when it was simply a matter of making textiles, the women did the spinning while the men did the weaving.
User avatar
Dontaskme
Posts: 16940
Joined: Sat Mar 12, 2016 2:07 pm
Location: Nowhere

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Dontaskme »

The answer to the OP is yes.

God's gender is ''Agender'' agenda free.
User avatar
Sculptor
Posts: 8529
Joined: Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:32 pm

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Sculptor »

God used to be female in prehistoric times.
With the emergence of so-called civilisation, she changed to be male.
In more recent years, god is more likely to be seen as a feminine caring figure.

The simple conclusion....

GOD IS TRANSSEXUAL!!
User avatar
Sculptor
Posts: 8529
Joined: Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:32 pm

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Sculptor »

Dontaskme wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:14 pm The answer to the OP is yes.

God's gender is ''Agender'' agenda free.
nah
User avatar
attofishpi
Posts: 9956
Joined: Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:10 am
Location: Orion Spur
Contact:

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by attofishpi »

Since God is bisexual I don't think it matters...bloody kinky tho!
socrat44
Posts: 309
Joined: Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:20 pm

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by socrat44 »

Does God have a gender?
" If we were looking for something that we could conceive
of as God within the universe of the new physics, this ground
state, coherent quantum vacuum might be a good place to start."
/ Book ‘The quantum self’, page 208, by Danah Zohar/
Attachments
God-Newton.jpg
God-Newton.jpg (56.17 KiB) Viewed 1505 times
Belinda
Posts: 8034
Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2016 10:13 am

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Belinda »

Sculptor wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:21 pm
Dontaskme wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:14 pm The answer to the OP is yes.

God's gender is ''Agender'' agenda free.
nah
I agree with Sculptor.
In societies where gender is a thing , God and/or gods will be gendered .
It may be the case that our post-industrial, post enlightenment, developed societies are becoming so that genders don't matter but when you look at the newspapers and what people say in everyday conversations, that is not yet the case (if it ever will be the case). Where there are genders these will be hierarchical otherwise there is no point in genders.
User avatar
Sculptor
Posts: 8529
Joined: Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:32 pm

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Sculptor »

socrat44 wrote: Wed Mar 22, 2023 2:22 pm Does God have a gender?
" If we were looking for something that we could conceive
of as God within the universe of the new physics, this ground
state, coherent quantum vacuum might be a good place to start."
/ Book ‘The quantum self’, page 208, by Danah Zohar/
God may be known through the book of nature.
Um.... or not.
Philosphicalous
Posts: 131
Joined: Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:51 am

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Philosphicalous »

Astro Cat wrote: Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:24 am In many versions of theism, gods are assigned genders. This might make sense for some like Zeus that are supposed to be running around bodily incarnated in some way most of the time.

But what about gods that are supposed to transcend space and time, do they have genders?

People often refer for instance to the God of Christianity as a “He,” even when not incarnated as Jesus.

Now, critics of gender theory usually insist that sex and gender are the same thing and that gender is defined chromosomally, by genitalia, or by gametes (producing sperm or egg). Arguably, a lot of gods that get assigned genders don’t have any of these, yet a lot of gender critics are perfectly comfortable calling their god a He or a She or whatever.

Do they have an explanation for this?
Yes. Man Male. Jesus Christ is the Christian God (according to the Christian Bible)
Belinda
Posts: 8034
Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2016 10:13 am

Re: Does God have a gender?

Post by Belinda »

Philosphicalous wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:30 am
Astro Cat wrote: Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:24 am In many versions of theism, gods are assigned genders. This might make sense for some like Zeus that are supposed to be running around bodily incarnated in some way most of the time.

But what about gods that are supposed to transcend space and time, do they have genders?

People often refer for instance to the God of Christianity as a “He,” even when not incarnated as Jesus.

Now, critics of gender theory usually insist that sex and gender are the same thing and that gender is defined chromosomally, by genitalia, or by gametes (producing sperm or egg). Arguably, a lot of gods that get assigned genders don’t have any of these, yet a lot of gender critics are perfectly comfortable calling their god a He or a She or whatever.

Do they have an explanation for this?
Yes. Man Male. Jesus Christ is the Christian God (according to the Christian Bible)
The explanation for why people historically attribute masculine gender to God hinges on power. Power and creation historically are masculine gender and pertain mostly to the male sex.

Power has been appropriated by the male sex as human males are bigger , stronger, never pregnant, and never nurse babies.
Post Reply