I mean, Roman Catholicism and offshoots have a "main God" which was just a Nazarene man so calling him a woman is at least just inaccurate. The Creator, the one Jesus prayed to, has no sex (even if He is used often, although They is used as well), being a somewhat incomprehensible being and not a sexually reproducing, dimorphic animal, lol.

Does it matter? They'll care.

It matters because it's less critical of the creed and more of people being (selectively?) illiterate and intellectually lazy misogynistic dumbasses!

In the mythology he can't be a man, he never received a Y chromosome from Joseph. Maybe he received that from the father-god? Or he was XO (Turner Syndrome). Could Jesus have been biologically/reproductively female but used male pronouns? Was Jesus trans? Based if true.

Lol, I'm sure the Creator, who made everything, can type in some Y chromosome into us, His little free-willed sims. Jesus was a righteous and selfless anti-imperialist (and proto-feminist/"egalitarian" as well), he gave his life for the cause, and that's all that matters in the end. 🤷‍♂️

Tbf, followers being illiterate, intellectually-lazy, misogynistic dumbasses is one of the biggest problems with modern Christianity, I think the ridicule is deserved.

But they never said they don't care about pronouns. In fact they have very strongly stated that they extremely do care about pronouns

The character of god is basically the ultimate shape shifter. For a being capable of shaping reality with just a thought, I gotta think such a being would be in a pretty constant phase of modifying itself, not just it's reality.

"He" vs "she" doesn't even scratch the tip of the iceberg when you look at god's arsenal of gender and sex characteristics - just look at some of the crazy shit it put here on earth. And I mean all of it, from the familiar dangly bits in our own pants to like a lizard's cloaca, to pollinators, etc.

You know the whole "biblically accurate angel" spiel with the trippy shifting eyes? I gotta think god's junk is a similar kaleidoscopic amalgamation of scrotums, clitorises, corkscrew duck penises, pollen, etc; all covered with a hefty amount of pubic hair and buckets of mucous.

Amen.

Oh certainly, I was just being a bit of a 🤓, lol.

Twitter: set up strawman; knock it down. Gain followers. Rinse, repeat.

Their insecurities not only live rent free in their head, they've turned the whole place into a slum for stupid ideas

He gets bonus points of trans or intersex though. Standard difficulty multiplier.

The created God is indeed the ultimate shapeshifter. They can be whatever those who imagine them imagine then as.

I've seen God, and she was black.

Did that unknowingly when I was a teen, wondered why it is a he, can't be a she because we are talking about a spirit basically.

All christianity, since always. It is founded on vague, contradictory bullshit that necessitates individual interpretation if one wants to pretend any of it is true.

The one Jesus prayed to, he specifically called his father.

You know it's all bullshit, right? It's a literal death cult.

And that one was Yahweh which was kind of based on El anyway (it's argued that YHWH was originally one of El's sons until he gained prominence in the region and eventually was elevated to El's spot and sort of merged characteristics with him).

Some religious people claim "nuh uh," to be fair.

AMEN. 😤😤😤

The only God that I accept

Like many languages, languages of the Bible like Hebrew and Greek have grammatical genders. The aspect of God that smites things is grammatically male. The aspect of God that conveys spiritual strength - usually translated as "the Holy Spirit" - is grammatically female. Progressive movements of Protestantism and Judaism see God as both genders: one of the two creation stories in Genesis states God created man AND woman in God's image. The focus on the male aspect of God, and the second creation story in Genesis with the rib thing, is a conservative movement hang-up and not a general religion thing.

Amen brother.

Ask them how big God's dick is. Tell them you're serious. Make then explain how that's a ridiculous question. Then ask them: if God's gender identity isn't tied to genitals, why do they insist on doing it?

Fair point! I guess I just wasn't around to witness the other versions, so I can't speak to them as confidently.

FR I thought the meme was maybe some sort of anti-christian-trans meme like some sort of church for trans out there would hypothetically get peeved about God's pronouns specifically?

Pure fever dream nonsense.

She looks and sounds just like Whoopi Goldberg.

I wasn't there, either. But have you read the bible? It was absolutely written by:

illiterate, intellectually-lazy, misogynistic dumbasses

First example I can think of: Snake told Eve to eat fruit. Eve relayed the info to Adam. Adam and Eve ate the fruit. Eve gets all the blame.

If an all-powerful god allowed this to happen, it's because he wanted it to. But he punished his creations for being the way he created them.

The bible exists to normalize abuse.

Of course the male part just smites things...

Could God microwave a burrito his penis so hot that not even he couldn't eat it?

Edit: her penis.

I've seen God, and I swear on my life he was a black man driving a Cadillac.

Not his, everyone's, lol. Read the Sermon on the Mount, it's like 10 pages?

But the Canaanite god the OT totally borrowed (Yahweh or YHWH as the former naming is a sin) was a married man. His wife was Asherah.

You can whip all all the syncretic bullshit you like, but the OG was a dude who like fighting and lightning. And pussy.

True, the one I always think was strange was when I was 6? I had a 1st grade teacher that was adamant we addressed her and others by the correct form of Ms/Miss/Mrs.

I was 6, I shouldn't have to care at all which adults are romantically involved nor which government documents theyve signed.

No, you mean that some cults, sometimes, eventually transform/course correct into belief on the One, or something close to it. I understand, but it doesn't change anything. People can be wrong in their understanding of God, people can have nonsensical beliefs like worshipping the very anthropomorphic, Zeus like character you're describing (or straight up deifying a man, like the Romans did!), that's nothing new. I don't believe in that, it doesn't matter if my ancestors did.

There's no way to force people to act right without also deleting free will, man. Of course God wanted to create at least one sandbox with free-willed intelligent beings in it. Only God knows why, but evidently we're all grateful for it whether we say it or not or else at least a majority of people would commit suicide. 😅

That's how you explain just doing a shitty copy paste job of older religions? Then claiming they discovered via divine inspiration?

Bitch please.

Ideology and belief evolves, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. And how can it be a copy paste when the God of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed was a being far and removed from any human flaw or negative characteristic? A God of rules, justice and mercy, not just a dude banging women in the skies, lol. Doesn't seem like much was copied, unless you're saying Roman Catholicism went full anthropormphic like the false deities of old and you'd be right but it's a false religion based on a real Jew they killed anyway.

And maybe, sometimes God inspires people. Solomon and his Ecclesiastes are good examples of writings that, considering their time, could go either way! Of course, if you don't believe in God, you can't believe in divine revelation (and you probably don't understand belief at all, you think it's a subset of the thoughts one can have on material reality when it is not), and I won't push either, DW.

So if the evolution of faith is good or bad, how do the incredibly flawed humans of your particular brand of belief figure out what's right? Accident of birth as the overwhelmingly majority of humans 'discover' their faith.

I mean this as a good faith question, so to speak. If faith can go down the wrong path and all evolution of various shared beliefs isn't created equal, what is the 'right' one?

By your own belief, we cannot know the mind of Yahweh, God, Allah, etc. So how do you know you picked the right one?

I was referring to your comment:

The Creator, the one Jesus prayed to

This is a good point:

They is used as well

But it's not consistent. I read the sermon on the mount, Jesus consistently refers to god with masculine language. So Jesus's god seems to be male, while other authors had other ideas.

This was one of my favorite parts:

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 16 By their fruits you will know them.

Let's apply that logic to Jesus himself. By the fruits of Jesus (his failed predictions and the horrors that christianity has wrought in his name), we know he was a false prophet. By every available measure, prophets do not exist. Anyone can try to predict the future, especially if they're vague about it. Those who have chosen to "believe" in advance ignore the misses and exaggerate the hits.

There's no way to force people to act right without also deleting free will, man

So god is not all-powerful?

Education is the way forward. People will act right when they realize it benefits everybody, when they realize we're all going to die if we don't improve our behavior.

I have been suicidal all my life. I was abused by my christian parents. Please stop defending death cults.

This guy ain't too bright

He just parrots the talking points he's learnt in his cult

The true god cares not what your fleshy bits or squishy bits say is your pronouns. The true god only cares how many dreadnought rated artillery cannons are plugged directly into your brainstem.

I serve the Omnissiah.

I don't really disagree with anything except the claim that a book was written by illiterates lol

at least a majority of people would commit suicide.

Dafuq?

You're in a death-cult, champ.

"If the gift of life was a horrible experience most people would end their lives" has nothing to do with my or anyone's ideology???

It's a stupid statement

Life isn't a gift, bestowed upon us

Your superstition may lead you to believe that, but that doesn't make it true

Good point. Maybe I'm illiterate, lol.

I'm not Christian, as you can see by criticism of Roman Catholicism and offshoots here. And no, if God Himself wanted to make people he couldn't control, because He decided so, how would He? He can just remake a universe of actual sims if he wanted to.

And hey, you're not the only one who has had it hard because of Christians/so called religious people, I get it and I'm sorry. I'm not defending them here.

The flesh is weak, but steel endures.