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: <179@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 15:36:34 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.179 Posted: Thu Aug 9 15:36:34 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 02:18:29 EDT Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 9 There is a gender-neutral singular animate third-person pronoun in English -- "they". (A rather esoteric use of that particular word, I'll admit, and perhaps even dangerous if used incautiously.) In my day-to-day life, it is only in this forum that pronouns for God would ever become an issue. Otherwise, second person "you" or "thou", depending on context, serves quite adequately. Stu