Reply #5: It's a cultural thing

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In some cultures - like India - there are symbolic male/female gods. The destroyer and the creator.

The symbolic God of our culture is supposed to be the creator/destroyer in one. Some may not admit that they destroyer is part of it - but look at how people pray to "Him" to help in War - God Bless America and all that. It could be even argued that we have the Destroyer God symbol with no accompanying Creator symbol. I think it's bad for the culture.

Sure you can look at life and think about the wonders of life and maybe if there were not any cultural symbols encouraging people to be destructive and greedy - it would not make any difference (and I would say that not ALL Bible verses encourage that - but look at the overall culture). But the fact is that we do have those symbols - whether we like it not - and whether we worship them or not.

I think we need a positive, female symbol for balance. The positive symbol for life and wisdom has been demonized for too long.