Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!alan From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion,net.women Subject: Re: Deific gender question Message-ID: <1239@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 11:52:58 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1239 Posted: Tue Aug 7 11:52:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 04:09:19 EDT References: <254@siemens.UUCP> <957@pyuxn.UUCP> <178@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 17 Xref: 1409 1197 > it doesn't > make sense to assign a gender to God. Quite bluntly, what would God do > with a penis or vagina? You're confusing gender and sex. What does a sailboat need with a vagina? (e.g. She's a beaut!) In German, the word for a young woman is neuter; in French, the word for a garbage can is feminine. You're right, it doesn't make sense that the word 'God' is masculine, just as the above examples don't make sense. Natural language has never made sense. But, to speak so that you can be understood, you've got to use the language the way it's used. Alan Algustyniak (ihnp4!sdcrdcf!alan) (allegra!sdcrdcf!alan) (cbosgd!sdcrdcf!alan)