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[quote=Anonymous][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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Jesus preached to women (he told Martha to come out of the kitchen and join his students), he let a woman with unbound hair annoint his feet (scandalous at the time), there were women among the earliest church leaders, and more. [/quote]

That same God also wrote the Old Testament. The deep misogyny in the OT is often conveniently left out in Christianity. [/quote]

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