Christians dying out or..

[NotAllThere]

Why assume that god is female?

Why assume that the Devil is male?

[_V_]

According to the 2021 census, England and Wales are now minority Christian countries. The census revealed a significant decline in the number of people who identify as Christian, and a significant increase in the number of people who identify as Muslim. This is the first time in the history of England and Wales that fewer than half of the population has identified as Christian. It is not clear why this shift has occurred, but it could be due to a variety of factors, such as changes in demographics, immigration, and religious beliefs.

[vetran]

Why assume that the Devil is male?

cause he wants to screw everyone?

[SueEllen]

cause he wants to screw everyone?

The Devil wears Prada....

[Paralytic]

Why assume that the Devil is male?

I'm not sure if that was a rhetorical question, or directed at me. If the latter, then i'd not assume that - the devil and $deity_of_choice have no gender and are two sides of the same coin - a tool to control those that choose to follow.

Religion was well ahead of Hollywood in realising that having baddy as a nemesis to the goody helps sell the story.

[d000hg]

That was rather the point - the assumption that the Abrahamic god was male. I always quite liked Gaia as a god.

Where in the Torah does it leave any room to believe this is an assumption? God seems to quite clearly be expressing His own gender identity.

And in Christianity, Jesus is recorded as talking about his father by eye-witnesses. It would also cast a rather odd light on the virgin birth if Jesus had two mums.

[_V_]

Where in the Torah does it leave any room to believe this is an assumption? God seems to quite clearly be expressing His own gender identity.

And in Christianity, Jesus is recorded as talking about his father by eye-witnesses. It would also cast a rather odd light on the virgin birth if Jesus had two mums.

There is no mention of God's gender in the Torah, the Jewish holy book. In Judaism, God is often referred to using masculine pronouns, such as "he" and "him," but this is a convention of the Hebrew language and does not necessarily reflect a belief in God's gender. In fact, many Jewish scholars and theologians have argued that God is beyond gender and should not be referred to using gendered language.

[Paralytic]

Thinking back to the rare times when I was listening in church, I recall the Catholic god is made up of the father, the son and the holy spirit. Now I don't know if the English variant is a direct gender-translation of the original scripts, but assuming it was, did they specify what gender the 3rd part of the magic trick was?

[_V_]

Thinking back to the rare times when I was listening in church, I recall the Catholic god is made up of the father, the son and the holy spirit. Now I don't know if the English variant is a direct gender-translation of the original scripts, but assuming it was, did they specify what gender the 3rd part of the magic trick was?

In Christianity, the Holy Spirit is often referred to using masculine pronouns, such as "he" and "him," but this is a convention of the English language and does not necessarily reflect a belief in the Holy Spirit's gender. In fact, many Christian scholars and theologians have argued that the Holy Spirit is beyond gender and should not be referred to using gendered language. In the Bible, the Holy Spirit is sometimes referred to using the feminine pronoun "she" in the original Hebrew and Greek texts, but this is not a consistent usage. Ultimately, the question of the Holy Spirit's gender is a matter of interpretation and belief.

[Whorty]

Whilst we're on the subject of fictional characters.... anyone know the gender of the tooth fairy?