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09/17/18

“Is it any wonder the attendance of the Church of England has been plummeting.” Admin

A female bishop has told the Church of England to stop referring to God solely as male, equating gendering the deity to websites only showing white people.

After a YouGov poll found that half of young Christians see God — referred to in the Bible as ‘father’, including in Jesus Christ’s ‘Lord’s Prayer’ — as male, the first female bishop Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, bishop of Gloucester, said that she was concerned that the Church was not being “mindful of language”.

 

“I don’t want young girls or young boys to hear us constantly refer to God as he,” she said, according to The Telegraph.

 

Adding that she was worried that patriarchal language might put off non-Christians, she added: “For me particularly in a bigger context, in all things, whether it’s that you go to a website and you see pictures of all white people, or whether you go to a website and see the use of ‘he’ when we could use ‘God’, all of those things are giving subconscious messages to people, so I am very hot about saying can we always look at what we are communicating.”

 

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