Politcally Correct Christ

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I still get irked when people call God a "she" though!

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Im such a chauvenist Pig!

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I hope your pique causes you to raise your awareness of the sexism inherent in the English language, and in Christianity.Is your God male? Does God have a thingie?

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if we changed the gender neutral pronoun to "it" people (especially women) would get offended at being portrayed as objects and/or babies.

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if we changed the gender neutral pronoun to "she," women would get offended that their gender now lacks meaning and distinction. see for instance the feminist take on calling boats by female names.

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We can use "they" as a gender neutral pronoun.

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There have been a number of subtle attacks on the divinity of Christ throughout the ages, however, in recent times it seems that the best way to undermine Jesus is just to invent ones' own cushy version of the Bible.

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Isn't this true of every version of the bible?

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However, any text that claims holiness, including but not limited to, the Bible, the Vedas, the Qur'an, any teaching by Buddha, etc, should be exempt from tampering. Its sacrilege no matter how you spin it.

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Does that mean that you read the Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek?

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sure i do this too, it doesn't mean it should be done, its confusing and bad english.

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Using "he" to refer to women is confusing.Saying that it is "bad english" is just a resistance to the inevitable evolution of language.We don't speak the same English that was spoken 200 years ago. Do we speak "bad" English?