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Reading the Goddess-article, I noticed that there was a specific article about female gods, but not about male ones. The one linked to in the Goddess-article is about deities in general, regardless of gender. Therefore I started this one. 83.83.3.190 01:37, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Wasn't logged in when posting the message above. Djadek 01:38, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I don't know about other religions, but in Judaism, God is most assuredly not a male deity. The word for a god is masculine grammatical gender, but this does not mean that God is male. In Hebrew, the word for war (an activity generally associated with men) is feminine, while the word for a woman's breast is masculine. I'm pretty sure God is also viewed as genderless in Islam and Christianity. I think the biggest problem with this article is probably that English doesn't have the concept of grammatical gender, only natural gender, and so translations into English from languages with grammatical gender seem to portray a world which is actually only an inappropriate and incorrect projection of English language/culture. Tomer TALK 03:59, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
This page is disgustingly lacking. Compared to the goddess counterpart, this page has almost no information at all. I understand that interest in a male god figure is not as virulent as goddesses these days, but at least something can be done here.
And for future reference, the Christian/Jewish/Muslim/Sikh God is genderless -- there already is an article for God and His gender. Lxx 06:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
In Genesis 1:27 when God creates man, it says "God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them." This must mean that he has the characteristics of both male and female. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.219.116.67 ( talk) 11:24, 11 September 2006
I highly doubt the validity of the following statements: "and Modern day technology. Modern examples include: "The Neon Wind" who is considered by many to be the God of Blog.the god of wade gullet resides in a small town where he playes allot of guitar hero with his friends", and unless someone can provide any actual proof that these are actual deities and not made-up bs, I'm going to delete these statements! Halstrom 19:19, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
The title of the page should be "god" not God. A page titled "God" would need to deal more with Monotheistic religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Jasynnash2 ( talk) 13:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
The title is capitalized because it is, well, a title. Even polytheistic gods become capitalized if they occur as the first word of a sentence. -- dab (𒁳) 12:14, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Should this be merged somewhere? There was a previous suggestion to merge it to Pantheon (gods) which makes little sense. Merging to God would be more sensible, but perhaps controversial. Leaving it on its own is the safest solution. -- Colapeninsula ( talk) 11:39, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
This page seems to both completely misunderstand historical polytheism and how its deities worked as well as have an incredibly shallow and modernist comprehension of those pantheons, which were (and in the case of living religions like Hinduism) not static, varied by region, and are largely artificial constructions of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Reading the Goddess-article, I noticed that there was a specific article about female gods, but not about male ones. The one linked to in the Goddess-article is about deities in general, regardless of gender. Therefore I started this one. 83.83.3.190 01:37, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Wasn't logged in when posting the message above. Djadek 01:38, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I don't know about other religions, but in Judaism, God is most assuredly not a male deity. The word for a god is masculine grammatical gender, but this does not mean that God is male. In Hebrew, the word for war (an activity generally associated with men) is feminine, while the word for a woman's breast is masculine. I'm pretty sure God is also viewed as genderless in Islam and Christianity. I think the biggest problem with this article is probably that English doesn't have the concept of grammatical gender, only natural gender, and so translations into English from languages with grammatical gender seem to portray a world which is actually only an inappropriate and incorrect projection of English language/culture. Tomer TALK 03:59, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
This page is disgustingly lacking. Compared to the goddess counterpart, this page has almost no information at all. I understand that interest in a male god figure is not as virulent as goddesses these days, but at least something can be done here.
And for future reference, the Christian/Jewish/Muslim/Sikh God is genderless -- there already is an article for God and His gender. Lxx 06:01, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
In Genesis 1:27 when God creates man, it says "God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them." This must mean that he has the characteristics of both male and female. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.219.116.67 ( talk) 11:24, 11 September 2006
I highly doubt the validity of the following statements: "and Modern day technology. Modern examples include: "The Neon Wind" who is considered by many to be the God of Blog.the god of wade gullet resides in a small town where he playes allot of guitar hero with his friends", and unless someone can provide any actual proof that these are actual deities and not made-up bs, I'm going to delete these statements! Halstrom 19:19, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
The title of the page should be "god" not God. A page titled "God" would need to deal more with Monotheistic religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Jasynnash2 ( talk) 13:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
The title is capitalized because it is, well, a title. Even polytheistic gods become capitalized if they occur as the first word of a sentence. -- dab (𒁳) 12:14, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Should this be merged somewhere? There was a previous suggestion to merge it to Pantheon (gods) which makes little sense. Merging to God would be more sensible, but perhaps controversial. Leaving it on its own is the safest solution. -- Colapeninsula ( talk) 11:39, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
This page seems to both completely misunderstand historical polytheism and how its deities worked as well as have an incredibly shallow and modernist comprehension of those pantheons, which were (and in the case of living religions like Hinduism) not static, varied by region, and are largely artificial constructions of the 19th and early 20th centuries.