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Why is the Christian god always referred to as a “he”? If this being has a sex, then it seems there must be a species here, not one single being. That would be backed up by the whole concept of Jesus being a “son” in any sense.

This opens a whole Pandora’s Box of questions, and seems to give credit to the argument of infinite regression. I think infinite regression is kind of a joke argument used by skeptics against a self-defeating argument used by apologists. Apologists claim that man is too complex to have gotten here without a designer, so that proves their god. Skeptics retort that if that’s true, then the Christian god is even more complex, and thus requires an even more advanced designer. You can carry that argument on forever.

The most obvious explanation, in my opinion, is that man created God in his own likeness and image. Yeah, I know, I win a Captain Obvious bumper sticker for that one. But isn’t this something which should be brought up in conversation more often? If God existed and created people, why create them as sexual beings in the first place? Depending on which chapter of Genesis you read, God created Adam, apparently with genitals, without any intention of creating Eve.

The simple fact is that humans have been creating gods for at least thousands of years. All of them are eventually forgotten, as those who worship them die off. Not a single one has a shred of evidence which can be observed directly or indirectly to prove their existence, so the current favorites will be gone soon as well. I only hope that we don’t replace them, or that they don’t vanish because we destroy ourselves and this planet fighting over them.