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Fair enough, that's not my intention. i re-read the whole thread and can see it from both sides. I took the reply of questioning what other spiritual views hold a feminine creator, when I feel its quite apparent there are many, as condescending. I apologize to the Op if this was misinterpreted and I apologize if my words caused offense.

thanks for clearing up

yeah i just think its good to remember everyone here has varying knowledge on these matters, just because the OP was not aware of there being feminine deities in other religions does not mean they have ill spiritual views. Now they know!

That is very fair and very mature of your oly mon.

I am impressed at how professional this disagreement has been dealt with from both sides! ... as an Englishman I think all sides need a good pat on the back and a loud belly shaking Bravo to be cheered by all who read it!

wow..this is why I dont really want to discuss this sort of stuff around here any long. It gets more unfriendly every day.

No thank you both, WE are all human and all need to be called out on our Sh#t. Thanks for pointing this out. Sorry yall.

The first time meeting the "godhead" while undergoing this human experience it was without gender or form, an infinite expanse, the push/pull of all and everything. Near impossible to describe properly with human language. There are other entities, what some would call deities, or gods that reside in lesser planes. At the base level though everything is everything, and there is no "nothing".

you're presenting a more protestant view of God, the Catholic trinity is more akin to say the kaballa sephiroth, steps of the divine though all are considered equal.the son is divinity in man, god in the mortal plane, the father is overseer and protector, but certainly not considered an old man in the sky by any Catholic priest I know, then there is the holy ghost, the purest form unadulterated holiness, which I'd say it's equivalent to the godhead you speak of.the only aspect of God in Catholicism with human form is the son and its only after he sheds that that he can actually ascend and become ruler of heaven.

I think there is quite a bit to be said for Catholic mysticism, it's a very complex system with roots as old as any other, it's an evolution of Jewish mysticism.

it's also of interest to note the movement from the mother goddess, an archetype of the creator and nurturer towards a father a protector and guide as a culture and religion grows. I do Think it a misnomer to call Catholicism a new religion, while as a whole it is a new religion it wasn't until while after its inception that Christianity was thought of as significantly different enough to not just be considered a Judaic cult.and when not thought of in that context it's a religion with very old ties.and many valid spiritual ideas.

I think Catholicism gets a bad rep due to some very vocal dicks trying to hurt other people because they don't want to upset the power structure of the church they're near the top of. there are however many groups in the church which are much more progressive on human rights.the nuns of America are currently under Vatican investigation for that, and there are many bishops and even cardinals that side with nuns.

as far as my personal thoughts I'd say that God as the understandable projection(the father) is whatever you need or perceive it to be(male, female, genderless), then God as the godhead(the holy spirit) is beyond gender or easy comprehension

Infinitylove is an awesome addition to this forum. Keep it up.

who knows these things people ,

Depends. Which God are you talking about, Earth God or Sky God?

I wasn't aware these things used the word 'God' at all, or if they did they have a counterpart word 'Goddess'? I am actually well-versed in hiduism, taoism, buddhism, yoga and forms of paganism related to magick.

I should clarify when I say 'God' I am not referring to the concept of God, the infinite source. I am referring to exactly the use of that word 'God', and religious texts that actually have the word 'God' printed in them.

Woah woah, you misunderstand me entirely.

I'm not catholic or clinging to a christian god or even the word god at all.

Actually the premise of me making this thread was because, when I encounter a Christian who wants to discuss this, I tell them, you should not use the word 'God' because it is inherently masculine and any infinite source would not carry a gender.

Then I thought about that for a moment, and wanted to know if anyone else who has 'been there' also percieves the thing as genderless.

Also, the question about what religions put the word 'God' in a feminine context was not a question about what spiritual views have feminine principle as the source of existence. I am actually very well read in hinduism, buddhism, taoism, yoga and alot of occult paganism. What I was referring to with that question was specifically about the word 'God', not the concept of God. I am aware of all the differing contexts of concepts of God. What I was inquiring about is whether any religion in their texts, uses the exact word 'God', printed in their texts, in a feminine context. As things like Hinduism or Taoism have feminine or genderless deitic principles, but they don't use the word 'God' to describe it. In anything I've read the word 'God' is inherently masculine, I am not aware of any books which use the word as inherently feminine, typically there is the counterpart 'Goddess' to decribe that.

No, they might not use the word 'God' or 'Goddess' but they have archetypal forms which represent the feminine. The pagans call it 'Mother Earth,' the hindi 'Shakti' or 'Great Goddess' and the taoist 'yang'. All words trying to describe something indescribable.

If you're well versed in these then why aren't you teaching differing views of the feminine instead of questioning the masculine?

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Ahh, I see where you're going. I learned a long time ago to use the word 'Universe' instead of the word 'God' because it is all-encompassing and carries no negative connotation.

hehe, yeah I learnt that one too.. using the word god is usually stigmatised to christianity and is unknowingly personified by the person listening. Universe is broader and can't really be argued as much

..'godhead' shouldn't be confused with 'god' as far as terms go..

in experience, i think people on the whole, if perceiving a gender aspect, perceive the opposite of their own gender if looking 'outwards' and the same if looking 'in'..
but that's trying to statistically generalise a bunch of different peoples' very subjective experiences..
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I wonder if (from a "distance" at which gender can be perceived) it is perceived as the gender the observer is attracted to.

But I agree that while God and godhead may or may not be synonymous, the term God can certainly cause a personification in the mind of the reader moreso than the less known/defined term godhead.
The concept of God tends to have a predefined shape in the minds people because it is so often encountered. The concept of a godhead is, personally, I term I had not come across until psychedelics so it was a concept that I had to build from the ground up, so to speak.

I'd say neither masculine nor feminine attributes, but it just keeps turning like a cog...

Yeah I know, it's boring

i wonder how many people experience the "God head", and whether the percentage varies over time, and if so what pattern the graph would have over the last 10,000 years?

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