I was at an open mic and two poets referred to God as a her. I think it was some sort of modern interpretation of God as mother(Earth) or perhaps it was a feminist gesture saying, why the hell couldn't it be a fucking woman God anyway?! In any case it seemed a little overdone. If not overdone, definitely not original. Making God a female didn't make the poem more powerful or anything, which is why it was brought to my attention, and not in a good way. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for women as deities. That's not my issue.
My issue is, in a Christian context, I can feel the masculinity in the representation of God. God was written as a male by our beloved Bible authors and that's the plain historical truth. Jesus is the son of a male God. Christians worship a male God and if they don't buy into that historically significant fact, they might want to consider a different faith.
Gender neutral faith is great, and if it's about spirituality or, heaven help us, the truth then I think it's safe to say that it's just as likely for God to be a woman as for God to be a man. And in my opinion, it's probably even more likely that God would be ungendered, given that God is an individual representing the holiness of both men and women. How could God represent men if God is a woman and visa versa. And that's assuming there is only one God. If there are more then its probably split 50-50 or maybe it's the same ratio as women to men on Earth (in which case more women dieties).
If you are a Christian though, if you read the Bible or go to church, it becomes hard to argue that God is a woman. What woman in power is going to ostracize her sassy gay friends, for example?! (Okay, maybe not the most serious example but you get it...) The best argument I can give is that a She-God isn't going to belittle women. The Christian doctrine, like it or not, is misogynistic.
So don't tell me your God is a woman. He's an old white male, an angry man with biases and presumptions that don't a female dispostion.
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