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[punkphilosophy]

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[surly05]

Hey, one of our Congress bills is to remove gender biased language. And yes, I do love the irony of it coming from an all guys school

[mylethallullaby]

Well, you get to hear the mormon view of it, why? Because I know it.

In the mormon religion, we believe god is a he. We believe that he has had a body, and that we were made in his image. We also believe that god has a wife, but he didn't want us to know her name so we couldn't misuse it like we do his. So we believe god has a body, and is a male.

But that's just us silly mormons.

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[ez2pawn]

The Judeo-Islam-Christian tradition uses "he" most likely due to its patriarchal background. Men have always dominated the cultures from which these religions come and it would come close to delegitimize the "almighty" power assigned to "God" if it wasn't the dominant gender. It would be very congruent to refering to George Bush as a political power by calling him a "Nader" or "Dole," in our times this makes no sense.
That is my take on it. To argue that Christianity (not you Neil but anyone reading this) isn't patriarchal I point to the fact that Jesus was male, all Catholic priests and clergy are male and finally the hundreds of male figures in Christian history compared to the few female powers.

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[punkphilosophy]

I just want to say thanks to Yogi, who drew out the point I was trying to get someone else to point out. Thanks man. I was trying to go down the lines of, in Judeo-Islam-Christian traditions, a large emphasis is placed upon the belief in Dogmatic Texts, Traditions, and Stories; so then, why is it that these stories within the texts and traditions indicate that they are made to fit certain historical situations, (Like Males being viewed as the dominant gender) Isn't this an indicator that they were created to conform to certain societal norms? If this is the case then, how true can they be? How much stock can we put in the stories of the Bible?

Neil