Reply #37: I agree, really

[Chulanowa]

I'm fully aware that "God" is not, in common usage, gender-neutral (thus my use of "Divinity" in the title, yeah?). That's just my point. Turning male "God" into female "Goddess" does not address the issue at all. It simply puts a different color paint over the same object. When you believe that there's only one deity and that deity is only one sex, then whoever the other sex is is automaticly "less than favored", get what I'm saying? The only way for religious gender equality is for both sexes to be given the same place - that, or neither sex gets any place. anything else than balance or abstraction creates division, then segregation, then discrimination.

Personally, I feel that if there is one singular deity, it is incredibly far beyond such issues as gender. I mean for crying out loud, such a being would encompass everything, and thus any debate over whether it has a penis or vagina is childish and stupid.