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From: stuart@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Stuart Kurtz)
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Subject: Re: Deific gender question
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Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 14:41:28 EDT
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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