Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!gargoyle!stuart From: stuart@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Stuart Kurtz) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.women Subject: Re: Deific gender question Message-ID: <178@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 14:41:28 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.178 Posted: Mon Aug 6 14:41:28 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 08:17:12 EDT References: <254@siemens.UUCP> <957@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 13 I'll agree with Rich Rosen (are those shocked gasps I hear?), it doesn't make sense to assign a gender to God. Quite bluntly, what would God do with a penis or vagina? What is the purpose of either without someone / something to share it? If there is one God, who / what is an appropriate sexual partner? If there are no conceivable partners, does it make sense to speak of gender? (Particularly if you deny the physical reality of the hardware.) I think attempts to ascribe a sex to God are based on pop psychology. E.g., God is powerful (and therefore male), or God is nurturing (and therefore female). Like most pop psychology, its entertaining, but bunk. Stuart Kurtz