Really? It takes away *all* the arguments? I'm going to speak of the tradition in which I was raised...
I think there are so many debates and questions about god that the gendering language is a minute part of it. In fact, I think the gendering of the language is more a reflection of who wrote the holy books and who was in charge of the church than anything god was attempting to share. There are so many aspects to god - in fact, gendering isn't even part of the basics in the "simple description of god" one gives a child in my tradition (which is that god is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent).
I am glad to be part of a tradition that broke away and "allowed" women pastors, "allowed" women to teach men, "allowed" women to hold any and all positions of power within the tradition. My relatives attend a church that's the conservative side of my tradition, where women may not be in positions of power over men. And you know what? While we each find the others church a bit peculiar, the essentials of the religion are the same. The questions and the struggles remain. There's a whole lot more to the religion than the gendering of language or a gender based hierarchy.
I know Judaism is heavily gender-based, but is it really so gender based that inclusive language removes all the questioning and debates? Does it even really remove most or the really central questions?
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I'm going to speak of the tradition in which I was raised...
I think there are so many debates and questions about god that the gendering language is a minute part of it. In fact, I think the gendering of the language is more a reflection of who wrote the holy books and who was in charge of the church than anything god was attempting to share. There are so many aspects to god - in fact, gendering isn't even part of the basics in the "simple description of god" one gives a child in my tradition (which is that god is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent).
I am glad to be part of a tradition that broke away and "allowed" women pastors, "allowed" women to teach men, "allowed" women to hold any and all positions of power within the tradition. My relatives attend a church that's the conservative side of my tradition, where women may not be in positions of power over men. And you know what? While we each find the others church a bit peculiar, the essentials of the religion are the same. The questions and the struggles remain. There's a whole lot more to the religion than the gendering of language or a gender based hierarchy.
I know Judaism is heavily gender-based, but is it really so gender based that inclusive language removes all the questioning and debates? Does it even really remove most or the really central questions?