Christians dying out or..

[NotAllThere]

I'm not sure if that was a rhetorical question, or directed at me.

Neither. I just find it funny that people get all het up God traditionally being masculine, but few people (except Brillopad) claim that Satan is feminine.

There is no mention of God's gender in the Torah, the Jewish holy book.

Sure about that? The Jewish holy book is the Tanakh, which includes the Law (Torah), the prophecies and the wisdom literature. And here's a mention of God's gender in Deuteronomy (fifth book of the Torah) 32:6
Do you thus deal with the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father, who bought you?
Has He not made you and established you?

There are similar references in the prophets and the wisdom literature.

[NotAllThere]

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?

C.S. Lewis said that God in relation to us is masculine, so "he" is the right pronoun. Since there is in the trinity the Father and Jesus who are both male/masculine, it would make sense for the Holy Ghost also to be male since it's "three in one" - I think there's room though for other views. In Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke), "spirit" is a feminine word. In Hebrew it's also masculine. In Greek spirit is neutral. But the gender of words doesn't necessarily indicate the gender of the object.

In German, the word for girl is Mädchen, which has the neutral gender: das Mädchen. Funny thing - the sun is feminine in German and the moon is masculine. It's the other way around in French.

[d000hg]

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

So there are plenty of mentions but you don't think that's the correct interpretation... that's very different to there being no mention.

Jesus clearly referred to his Father. A lot of the stuff he said got the Jews pretty upset, but nobody seemed to find that controversial. They had a go at him for picking an ear of corn on Saturday but not for misgendering the Almighty, suggests it was accepted.

[d000hg]

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

If you don't want to take part in a grownup conversation, you are welcome to leave. Theology is a serious academic study regardless of faith (there's lots of atheist theologians)

[sadkingbilly]

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

[mudskipper]

Good article here

https://humanists.uk/2022/12/06/sett...n-census-2021/

[SueEllen]

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

The tooth fairy is mostly depicted as female in the folklore of the British Isles and elsewhere in the Western world. There was even a US woman who did a survey about it and 74% of people stated the tooth fairy was female. Shakespeare's well-known fairy, Puck, from a Midsummer Night's Dream is has no gender. So I suspect that lots of people think the tooth fairy is female due to images they have seen from the likes of Disney and the Cottingley Fairies.

[NotAllThere]

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

Just one, Aziraphale. He's the only one who knows gavotte. (Good Omens)

[SueEllen]

If you don't want to take part in a grownup conversation, you are welcome to leave. Theology is a serious academic study regardless of faith (there's lots of atheist theologians)

Why did you think what the gender of the tooth fairy is, isn't a serious question?

Or don't you think folklore is also worthy of being studied?

[_V_]

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

It is impossible to answer this question as it is a metaphor for a meaningless or insignificant question. The phrase "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" originated in the Middle Ages and was often used to ridicule theological debates that were considered to be frivolous or irrelevant. The phrase is not intended to be taken literally, but rather as a way of dismissing a question or argument as being insignificant.