I'm doing a quickie poll out there to find out if people find the use of female pronouns for God to be offensive.
Here's the background, if you want: I coordinate a book discussion group, and the readers chose "The Red Tent," which is a novel based on biblical characters, written from a female point of view. On the library's web page promoting the group, I used a quote from an Amazon review which said that the book was what the Bible might have been had it been written "by God's daughters instead of her sons." The webmaster was VERY upset and changed the pronoun to "his," then the library director asked me to remove the quote altogether. I was taken aback, and I'm tempted to make a bit of a fuss from an intellectual freedom point of view, but if my usage was truly offensive to sincere people, I don't want to do it. I'm not religious and I don't even know many religious people, so it's hard for me to gauge. Is it offensive? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deb Messling -^..^- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 2/25/03
