“We’ve made God a man because it reinforces – in both overt and subtle ways – the male-dominated hierarchy that we have constructed in our societies.
Perhaps the assignment of a gender or sex to God is simply that we associate maleness with power in many of our societies and because God is the most powerful, he must be male. I’m sure you can all see the logical fallacy in that reasoning.
A person has to wonder: for a being who is omnipotent and omniscient and who apparently doesn’t have a partner, what need would they have for a sex or gender? If his sex/maleness, is biological, are we saying that God is biological? And if he isn’t biological and it is just the imposition of a gender over a non-biological entity, what possible purpose could that serve?
Class dismissed.”
As he packed up his lecture notes he reflected. It had gone well. Perhaps his best class on this particular subject. A few students acknowledged him as they went by and he returned their greetings. Notes organized, classroom empty, he turned to leave.
“Professor Stevens.”
A voice called out from stadium seating in the lecture hall. He turned and scanned the room and found a young woman gazing back at him. She had stayed seated – halfway up the bleachers and almost right in the middle. He hadn’t noticed her during the lecture. In fact, he didn’t recognize her at all. Had she been in this class all semester?
He expected her to come down closer in order to talk to him. Perhaps she had a question. But she didn’t move. Something about this was making him nervous though he wasn’t sure why. He tried to chalk it up to leftover adrenaline from lecturing but he knew that wasn’t the whole story. His shyness? Maybe.
“Yes, hello. Did you have a question?”
He thought he mostly disguised the nervousness in his voice but he must not have been entirely successful because one of the corners of her mouth arched up in a half smile. Not helping calm his heart rate.
“I do.”
She waited for a long moment. He was starting to feel like she was toying with him and the slight irritation that caused made his back straighten a little.
“I am happy to answer any questions you have. My office hours are on the syllabus.”
He bent to retrieve his bag when she called out again.
“What I wanted to know, Professor, was whether you associate maleness and power.”
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