Oh My - This Just In: God is a Man, Or Else

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So, I've been silently seething about the way that my church backed down on the use of inclusive language and reinstated the Nicene Creed in its original text. Now, I attend mass largely out of family unity and think of it as a seminar on ethics - one which will hopefully give me something to think about for the next week if I'm lucky, but often consists solely of problematic rhetoric that I filter out or actively deconstruct. So, I don't really get into the Nicene Creed either way - I stopped saying it many years ago in an attempt to no longer voice beliefs I don't hold - but I'm significantly less annoyed and alienated when the entire congregation around me pledges allegiance to the Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier than to the Father Almighty and a nonsensically male-embodied Holy Spirit (I kind of thought the entire point of a spirit was incorporality - i.e. the inability to have a penis or ovaries).

So then today it comes out that the Vatican has officially outlawed the use of "so-called feminist theology" and gender neutral language, ordering that all baptisms using gender neutral phrases like "Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier" are null and void, requiring that those people be rebaptized.

Oh, thank goodness - My baptism isn't official anyway - and possibly not my parents' marriage either. Because our priests didn't fully respect the Trinity's manhood, we're doomed to a fiery eternity. Really, you cannot even make up misogyny on this level.

See the full story Here at the F Word and Here at the Telegraph