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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get creeped and weirded out by God referenced as "He," but then again the inherent misogyny of those religions makes sense with such gendering (not just Christianity, but including it of course)[/quote]

I belong to a faith [b]whose most recent prayer book tries[/b] to eliminate all gendered references to God. The English language makes this somewhat awkward in many cases. [/quote]

It doesn't matter how you "update" an ancient text according to modern ethics. If it was written with an obvious, and only male spin, the religion was created in misogyny.

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We believe that our religion evolves, and was meant to.   But the problems are not necessarily with misogynistic texts - its simply difficult to avoid the third person English pronoun.  Substituting "you" or "God" where ever "He" might occur can be awkward.   And substituting "she" calls even more attention to gender (maybe it shouldn't, but it does)

You can try a religion that does not have references to God as a person, or you can have a religion with multiple gods, some male and some female (and maybe some you are comfortable calling "it") But that is not our religion. [/quote]

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