In Christian denominations, God is often rendered with masculine pronouns in religious texts and prayers.
I don’t believe that “God created man in his own image” means the creator is an old bearded man with a human body and mind. The Bible is full of patriarchy and misogyny; it just a clear sign of those times and the writer’s limited capacity to comprehend the complexity of the earth and the greater universe as a whole.
Even with all the scientific advances “mankind” has made over time, we still have no idea of what we are and how we came into being. For a lot of people it just much easier to believe a supreme being, much like us, just kinda said, “make it so.”
Recently, The Church of England has said that God was neither male nor female and has asked a commission to explore how that is reflected in its services.
While the (Anglican) Episcopal Church, Church of England and Unitarian Universalist Church have made much progress in addressing a woman’s role in the church along with acceptance of homosexuality and varied sexuality identities, many individual churches remain deeply divided on the issue of who is acceptable in their eyes.
Of course, a great number of other religious denominations seem to hold to an extremely old fashioned view of those groups of people and actually discriminate against them.
I’m hopeful that we’re making progress, but I don’t believe (in the greater scheme) we’ll ever find the actual answers to, “Who Are We.” In the meantime, l’m encouraged that many religious leaders and politicians are finally willing to accept the fact that we are all simply human beings and equal.
What I do know is, “I yam what I yam and that’s all what I yam…
(As an old seafaring philosopher once said)
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