For what it’s worth HE doesn’t think that the concept of a gender-neutral God goes far enough.
There’s always been something out-to-lunch about assigning gender pronouns (“God the Father Almighty”) to a mystical cosmic entity…a Star Wars-ian force devoid of emotion and indifferent to the last. You can try to quantify God in purely scientific or mathematical terms, but Joan Osborne’s definition (“What if God was one of us?…just a slob like one of us…just a stranger on the bus…tryin’ to make his way home?”) has always infuriated me. Ditto Cecil B. DeMille‘s deep-voiced, burning-bush God (“I am that I am”).
I can roll, on the other hand, with John Lennon‘s “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” I’m also down with God being defined as a perfect smile. But no gender assignments of any kind, including gender-neutral. That’s kid stuff.
