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From: cel@cs.duke.edu (Chris Lane)
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Subject: Re: Newspaper Article
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Date: 18 Oct 90 13:34:47 GMT
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In article <26502@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> bweiss@cs.arizona.EDU (Beth Weiss) writes:
>> morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
>>> Most damning, however, is that god consistently prefers to talk to
>>> men. All prophets are male, as is Christ. Women are purely auxiliary,
                                   ^^
>>> as far as god is concerned.

>Is it true that god prefers to talk to men, or is it true that only
>men were listened to at that time, and so times god talked to women
>weren't recorded?  Certainly, Christ is male.  All the _published_
                                      ^^
Well, perhaps this shouldn't be in soc.feminism (or it could go 
in soc.feminism.thealogy), but surely it is only true to say Jesus
was male.  If one believes that gender is not truth, and not pervasive
in experience (i.e. one is not always acting or living *as a man* or *as a 
woman*, often gender is simply not a part of life (I've heard a definition
of harrassment as being having gender placed on a person 
at inappropriate times)), then there is clearly no call for a living
Christ to be male or female.  Even if one believes in a Christ that is
a person, it is a fundamental tenant of feminism that Gender is *not*
necessary for Personhood.  One can worship a male Christ or a female Christ,
the gender is more for the historical worshipper than anything else.

>--beth
>bweiss@cs.arizona.edu

Well, that's my $0.02 for the morning.  


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