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| God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 12:20pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
A minister in Angela Merkel's government has sparked a pre-Christmas row among Germany's ruling parties by suggesting God be referred to with the neutral article "das" instead of the masculine "der". Family Minister Kristina Schroeder made the comments when asked in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit how she explained to her young daughter the use of the masculine form for God. "The article is not important," she responded, adding that it was fine to use "das" instead of the traditional "der" when referring to God. The remarks were immediately denounced by members of Schroeder's own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). "This intellectualised nonsense leaves me speechless," Christine Haderthauer, Bavarian social minister, told top-selling daily Bild. Stefan Mueller, a CSU lawmaker, said he was "bewildered" by Schroeder's "inappropriate" comments. When pressed on the matter at a government news conference on Friday, Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert backed Schroeder. "If you believe in God, the article is not important," he said. "If you speak to God in a different way, the prayers are still heard." (Reporting by Noah Barkin. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.)- Reuters
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| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 12:29pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
This stirs up a good debate. Religion has been too patriarchal |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 12:38pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
Logicboy03: This stirs up a good debate. So to you, what is the gender of God  |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 12:45pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
DailyNews: I dont believe in god  |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 12:48pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
Funny. First you'd have to wonder if it has a reproductive organ? :/ |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 12:58pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
Logicboy03: God is different from god you know |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 12:58pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
musKeeto: Funny. First you'd have to wonder if it has a reproductive organ? :/...  |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 1:12pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
DailyNews:God and god both sound alike. Any difference is just in or of the mind. |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by AtheistD(m): 3:17pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
God is a dude. It says so in the bible and hence it is a fact  |
| Re: God's Gender Divides German Government- Male Or Female? by Nobody: 4:16pm On Dec 22, 2012 |
Atheist:-D:dude Are u really an athei? |
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