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Our GodRebel credo:
"We don't hate religion. Rather, we apply tests of reason to it."
"We don't hate religion. Rather, we apply tests of reason to it."
Its clear to me that ‘He' and 'Him’, in Spirits’ realm, are never taken in full meaning. She or He or Him as Higher power surely has no race or sex. Its taken time in letting go and prayer, to move beyond the need to take the sexist terms or pronouns hard to heart. None need take the Spirit's pronoun as holding forth God's profile; such words are forced into constraints by common grammar. There is no demeaning motive, nothing that is meant to limit or condemn me. Its best for me to come to this with kindly care, a kindly soul that sees and holds my state of mind most gently, stirring a dash of grace into these matters.
Grammar's Constraints
In plain English as it stands, the words “he” or “him” are meant to include the female sex as well as the manly gender. As to the gender terms applied to Source or God or Higher Power, none of us should take them in the most literal of meanings or take them much too deeply into the tender soul. With most free-speakers as with scripture's writings, gender terms are never used to limit or exclude the female or the feminine. Such a speaker may be ignorant of their effect or the writings limited by rules of grammar. In kindly understanding for myself and all my sisters, it's good to know and feel this fully and remember not to treat a gender pronoun as a god!. More on Page 1
In plain English as it stands, the words “he” or “him” are meant to include the female sex as well as the manly gender. As to the gender terms applied to Source or God or Higher Power, none of us should take them in the most literal of meanings or take them much too deeply into the tender soul. With most free-speakers as with scripture's writings, gender terms are never used to limit or exclude the female or the feminine. Such a speaker may be ignorant of their effect or the writings limited by rules of grammar. In kindly understanding for myself and all my sisters, it's good to know and feel this fully and remember not to treat a gender pronoun as a god!. More on Page 1
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Something’s Changed-- and How
As I’ve talked about the Higher Power in my time on earth, and more so lately, I tend to use the feminine on purpose. I speak of God as She or I skirt the issue to use no gender terms at all. Through the years of working with this, something in me changed with lots of time and lots of talking.
Something’s changed inside my heart for now I see that in the main, I’m taking less offense to the male gender pronoun as used in readings of the scripture or teachings of the Godly. God or Higher Goodness, as couched today in words of "He" or “Him” now holds little power over me. It’s my choice as well, in letting go beyond myself, to move beyond the pain or gain or felt transgressions. In my heart I deeply know that gender holds but little sway in the Higher realm of Soul, and that I am awesome, woman and all, in the light of that Most Loving Heart.
Today I still will choose what I take in and what I put out as well. I keep an eye to being fair to my own sex and sensitivities. Yet it seems that time and talking, with some good help from me, has turned a trick of freedom, and its almost that I've barely had to try at it at all!
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A language shaped by men is surely not religion's fault, for the written word is captive to the truths and failings of mankind's man-made* grammar! --------------------------------------------- |
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This is how I won the battle to believe in my own sex
even while exposed to the unholy grammar of men and angels:
even while exposed to the unholy grammar of men and angels:
- At first, I changed the words that rubbed me wrong, yet knowing that the expressions were constrained by worldly terms, not meant as stated to "genderize" the Essence of the Spirit. Then…
- I waited, working my inner changes and "translations" to the female gender, 'til they began to peter out, seemingly less necessary to my heart and soul.
- I kept working, bit by bit and now and then, on my understanding and believing, doing so most patiently, remembering, feeling and learning that The light of Something Greater respects all womanhood most highly, that It (the Spirit) most surely loves me and transcends most easily any labeling of gender.
- Finally-- much later-- I saw the miracle of knowing truth as stated here, and knowing it most deeply and securely within my soul.
As in our “Improved Translations” for God- Talkers, when I read or hear the words of anything, I can “translate” or change the words to meet my need, within and for myself alone. I can use the language of my choice to speak of anything I wish. It can also be quite funny to watch the faces of the men on when I include the female sex as God in speaking and interpretations!
Keep it Light--
What did God say after He created Eve and saw his most perfect handiwork?
Answer: "Practice makes perfect!" __________________________________ |
Is God a Sexist?
I don’t think so. Am I a Diva? I may be, and why not? Am I alive?
Do I deserve an equal treatment with the male of my own species?
I may be a diva, and if that’s so, then surely I am fine to be that. No matter what I choose, I'm just exactly where I need to be in Spirit’s eyes,and wholly loved indeed! I also have the choice to live or change as only I may choose.
& BTW, The term “diva” is a judgment call, and so whether I am one or not is wholly in the eyes of the beholder.
I don’t think so. Am I a Diva? I may be, and why not? Am I alive?
Do I deserve an equal treatment with the male of my own species?
I may be a diva, and if that’s so, then surely I am fine to be that. No matter what I choose, I'm just exactly where I need to be in Spirit’s eyes,and wholly loved indeed! I also have the choice to live or change as only I may choose.
& BTW, The term “diva” is a judgment call, and so whether I am one or not is wholly in the eyes of the beholder.
More on Sexism on Page 1
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