The church is on your side

[vetran]

Is God a "he" though?

I suppose to get the world this screwed up we need a woman!

[SueEllen]

I suppose to get the world this screwed up we need a woman!

I was thinking that God was genderless.

[d000hg]

Is God a "he" though?

What, God the Father? Hmmm.

[LondonManc]

Is God a "he" though?

Can't be unless he's a masochist; he put testicles on the outside.

[Gibbon]

The ultimate single dad

But he has a mother whom he impregnated, sorry it was an annunciation.

Mary was given the title mother of God, theotokos, at the council of Ephesus in 430CE. It was a riposte at Arianism which postulated that God and Jesus were similar, but not the same. This takes away the unity of the divine, therefore the Roman Church to whom Jesus and God are the same indissoluble entity elevated Mary to theotokos.

[Gibbon]

Is God a "he" though?

Interestingly a lot of early Christian art displays Christ (who is also God) as a young androgynous male, much like the Greek god Apollo, who seems to have been a 'model' for the emerging Christian art.

[d000hg]

Can't be unless he's a masochist; he put testicles on the outside.

But then what kind of female god would create periods and childbirth (I mean the bible explains the latter being a change to the original design but the former is as seemingly bad as what men have to carry around)

[d000hg]

But he has a mother whom he impregnated, sorry it was an annunciation.

I don't think God impregnated his own mother

Amusing typo aside God didn't marry Mary so he'd still be a single dad in this increasingly tortured joke.

[LondonManc]

But then what kind of female god would create periods and childbirth (I mean the bible explains the latter being a change to the original design but the former is as seemingly bad as what men have to carry around)

Ah, now then. It's very simple. A kick in the nuts must hurt mort than childbirth. Women want another child; I've yet to hear a man (NLyUK's clientele aside) ask to be kicked in the nuts again.

[PhiltheGreek]

The C of E does not officially recognise marriages where one or both parties are reptilian.

Nonsense. If that were the case just how do you explain Prince Philip?

You don't. That is the point. I will say no more on the matter.

You're happy enough with the old trouser snake when you're working, sweetheart.