[lbo-talk] Dog sucks the big Chuck

[Dwayne Monroe]

Chip Berlet:

And, in case it is not obvious, the original subject
line manages to be both homophobic, and insulting to
organizers like me who are people of faith trying to
organize within that community. 

........................


Chip, I have tremendous respect for and sympathy with
your efforts, but your statement calls for a little
unpacking.




To see the subject line as homophobic and insulting a
person would have to:


a.) Believe in God

b.) Believe this God has human male characteristics

c.) See the use of implied male on male
suck-to-it-ta-ness as a slap against Gay people
because it subtly asserts same sex lovin to be a joke
or a problem.



Of the three, right now, I find the male God figure
hypothesis to be the most interesting artifact.  

I mean, omnipotent and omniscient aren't human
attributes; those abilities are way above our mortal
pay grade.  If God is able, as my Sunday School
teacher insisted when I geekily pressed her, to lazily
contemplate the motions of galaxies while checking in
on whether or not randy humans keep it zipped prior to
marriage it's a safe bet the configuration of
consciousness is quite thoroughly alien.  

Which is why the idea of a male god seems even more
astounding to me then the already quite astounding
idea of god itself.


Do you, as a "person of faith", believe in a gendered
deity?




.d.



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