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A thread from people more versed than me on the subject: https://twitter.com/jayhulmepoet/status/1597887323966169089?s=21&t=4IMmMXy3mJR-ehK25ZqU8Q https://twitt

A thread from people more versed than me on the subject: https://twitter.com/jayhulmepoet/status/1597887323966169089?s=21&t=4IMmMXy3mJR-ehK25ZqU8Q https://twitter.com/jayhulmepoet/status/1597887323966169089?... My personal take is that our society wants god to be a father figure and Jesus a man, so what was said in ancient scriptures or whatever got lost in translation is probably irrelevant at this point. Culturally I expect to see people distancing from religion will happen faster than seriously debating what sex Jesus was. From a logical perspective, having a unique god gendered and him sending his son on earth feels so clunky. Even angels are asexual, why would god be more limited. Lucifer having a defined sex probably comes from —-fanfics—-popular litterature ?. On the Adam/Eve split, Adam could become what we know as man _after_ Eve is created from him, it wouldn’t make sense to have a sexed individual with no opposite sex at first.

ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
Interesting twitter thread - I'll see if I can read through all of it at some point. As an atheist, I'd propose that the bible/scriptures aren't self consistent and I'd describe a lot of stuff as being clunky or not logical within them (though a generous interpretation would be that details have been lost in translation/transcription). Historically, it seems to me that eunuchs were often considered as the typical asexual gender, and they were made by removing parts from a male, so it could be argued that Abrahamic god was male and the angels were created as less-than-male eunuchs. Of course that doesn't explain angels with breasts. Edit: read through the thread, it wasn't as long as I first thought. Some fun ideas there, but the side wound being a vagina doesn't sound convincing to me (but then I'm no theologian).

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A thread from people more versed than me on the subject: https://twitter.com/jayhulmepoet/status/1597887323966169089?s=21&t=4IMmMXy3mJR-ehK25ZqU8Q https://twitt

by makeitdouble 4y ago

ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
Interesting twitter thread - I'll see if I can read through all of it at some point. As an atheist, I'd propose that the bible/scriptures aren't self consistent and I'd describe a lot of stuff as being clunky or not logical within them (though a generous interpretation would be that details have been lost in translation/transcription). Historically, it seems to me that eunuchs were often considered as the typical asexual gender, and they were made by removing parts from a male, so it could be argued that Abrahamic god was male and the angels were created as less-than-male eunuchs. Of course that doesn't explain angels with breasts. Edit: read through the thread, it wasn't as long as I first thought. Some fun ideas there, but the side wound being a vagina doesn't sound convincing to me (but then I'm no theologian).