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Wow, that's huge. And I didn't know the Church of Sweden had already done this as well.

Glad to hear it, but how will it play out semantically? "They"? "It"?

Anyway, I approve.[/quote]
When we pray with non-masculine language in my synagogue, we usually just say “God” or “The One” instead of “He,” and “ruler” instead of “king” or “lord.” It’s an easy substitution. [/quote]

The Lord's prayer might have some issues.

Lord, father, son come up a few times.  Quite a few hymns used male gendered words etc.[/quote]

NP. We (Jews) just changed the translation. In some cases, we changed the Hebrew, adding matriarchs, for example, where only patriarchs had been listed. In other cases the "original" stays the same, and there's no getting away from the patriarchal language if you read Hebrew, but otherwise ... These texts are all in translation. If you're not saying the actual text anyway, you can change it.

Also, most religious authorities will tell you that "God" is not consistently gendered, at least not in the original scriptures. God in the Hebrew scriptures has male and female names and attributes[b]. I'm not sure what happened with the New Testament, Did God suddenly acquire fixed gender?[/b][/quote]

Yes

Jesus explicitly and exclusively refers to God as the Father.

Christian religion and Christian baptism is based on the trinity, which is specifically God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

You cannot get away from God as being the Father in Christian religion.  It is right up there with the Christian (and Jewish) belief that there is only one God.

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Not all Christians agree with you on the exclusive use of male pronouns. One can believe in a trinitarian God who does not have one gender.[/quote]

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