Non-religious Theists?

Question

Are you still affected by the Judeo-Christian-Muslim concept of one male God?
I personally think that is far too limiting to see the divine that way.
What do you think?

Answer 1

Religious theist here but, no, that belief has no affect on me.

Well, except to make me wonder how anyone would want to worship such a god.

Answer 2

It affects me, in the same way it does you- it makes me see the said religions as limiting, incomplete, not quite getting the whole picture. but i think that is the problem with most organized religions or belief systems, when you exclude possibilities, and believe written word as "Truth" and don't see where the metaphor is pointing, the wisdom is lost and it becomes a dogmatic fear based belief-

Early humans did not understand the Divine and they made up stories to explain the unexplainable. The idea of a Goddess was at one time more believed than that of a male God. We have been living in a patriarchal society for the past 2000+ years, and so, the idea of a male God is a reflection of that.

It's a small-minded, super limited interpretation of the Divine- to think that God is male, and human-like. It's a projection of our ego- we like to believe that God must be like us, because we are judgmental, wrathful, needy. The Divine is none of these.

~peace

Answer 3

The Judeo-Christian-Muslim God is not male, contrary to your misconception. The writers of the Bible and Torah and Qu'ran just did not bother putting /SHE after the HE.
Moreover, the correct way of thinking out HIM/HER would be to call it an IT, quite impersonal if you ask me, although correct, except that in Latin and french and , I would venture, quite a few languages do not have an equivalent for " it " , I know, I speak french fluently.
Maybe feminism just wasn't in the writers mind at that time ( 5000 years ago ) or maybe they thought that relating a good protecting and forgiving GOD to a father might be the right thing to do, who knows.
As for myself and a lot of other people, we do not stumble at the " he " , we know what God is and that it is better left alone to just think of it as a HE , although I know some sisters think of it as a SHE, maybe their father abused them or something, I donno. Both is okay anyways.

Answer 4

No. I'm not affected by the concept. I agree, it is limiting. Placing human attributes onto something that is supposed to be beyond us in all aspects leaves us with just another reflection of the person talking.

Answer 5

My Atheist boyfriend says it is not organic. From a medical viewpoint, it is not. The intercourse section, besides. Marriage is in ordinary terms a criminal bond and is a shaggy dog tale presently. enable them to marry, they're in simple terms going to get divorced like maximum of contained in the hetero international. No difference, truly.

Answer 6

No, I'm not. (I like your terms, 'non-religious
Theists') My understanding is; the Prime Moving Force is beyond gender and even beyond our ideas of personality, although the Prime Identity holds an idea of itself as human to which we can relate. This idea of All That Is as human, IS the God that people believe is THE God. I hope you follow me.

Answer 7

I threw it out, because it's WAY to limiting. I don't think god is a person. Hence, it's god. A force that cannot be explained that ties everything together.

Answer 8

To an extent. The J-C-I God is so pervasive in Western thought and philosophy that its hard to be unaffected by it. Also, I think that there's an element of truth to it.

Answer 9

Nope, Divinity is gender Neutral. But I could be wrong.

Answer 10

No...I believe the Great Spirit to be in all, and that has no room for only one gender.