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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is sky daddy offensive when people literally call god "father"? Lol make up your minds![/quote]

"Our father who art in heaven".  People say it all the time without being offended. But  "Our daddy who art in the sky" sounds odd, even though the words father/daddy and heaven/sky are used interchangeably all the time.[/quote]
Sounds odd =/= offensive [/quote]

I say “my mother and father in heaven” and refer to God as you or they and sometimes even she  - not him [/quote]
I love hearing people refer to god as a she/her. [/quote]

How about "my Mommy and Daddy in the sky" for kids?[/quote]
My kids would tell you that God is everywhere, not just in the sky.[/quote]

I also learned that God is everywhere, but still recited the Lord's Prayer, saying "Our Father, who art in Heaven" - Do your kids?

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DP: Yes, and they are Catholic, so they also understand that heaven is not a place, but a state of ultimate union with God, and that God is, in essence, love, so heaven is basically becoming one with the ultimate goodness of all existence.

So those who say the word "sky" is the same as heaven fundamentally misunderstand and mock what heaven is. Similarly, God is not a literal Father, so substituting "Mommy and Daddy" (as an adult) similar mocks those religions that believe in a spiritual God.

Frankly, it seems that some atheists who post on here are super hung up on literal language and never really tried to learn what various religions actually believe. It's pretty lazy to stop at an image of a Dad with a long white beard sitting on a cloud. So lazy that it's bigotry. You don't have to believe anything, but such banal mockery is offensive.[/quote]

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