God Gets A Sex Change — Is “He” Being Neutered?
September 8, 2010 No Comments
Despite attempts from Alanis Morisette to convince us of the contrary, most people think of God as male. He is often depicted as an elderly man in the sky with a long white beard and twinkling/vengeful eyes (depending on your denomination).
The Scottish Episcopal Church has authorized the removal of all references to the divine entity as a male.
The new form of worship, which removes words such as “Lord,” “he,” “his,” “him” and “mankind” from services, has been written by the church in an attempt to acknowledge that God is “beyond human gender”.
Now the divine entity of the “Father, Son and Holy Spirit” can be “Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier.” Mankind is now world.
Direct translation from the Bible will be unchanged.
“We have really tried not to mess around with the descriptions of God in the biblical text,” said Rev Darren McFarland.
“But what we want to see is generous language when it comes to gender. God is above and beyond human gender. We are not saying God is not masculine. God is also feminine. The problem is trying to use human language to describe the indescribable.”
Despite the brouhaha around these changes, they are only optional. Bishops have allowed the new text, but people are still free have services worshiping God as a man.
