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CrispyQ

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5. Who's surprised? It reinforces patriarchy, & men's control over women.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 04:24 PM

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God the Father. God the Son. And then there's a ghost. I guess that represents women cuz we're invisible. My minister was not comfortable when I asked him, if God isn't male or female, why don't we have a special pronoun for God? (I didn't realize how ahead of my time I was!) He mumbled some lame answer. It could easily have been God the Parent & God the Child, but no. Women were deliberately left out of the Trinity.

So many small, petty men.

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