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…as is the idea that we need to pray to get his attention. I thought he was all-powerful. Doesn’t he already know what needs fixing?

(And by the way — a sorta semi-serious question…why is God always referred to as “he?”)

Patriarchy.

Judith Plaskow, a Jewish feminist theologian, makes a rather interesting point about this. She says that to use the masculine exclusively is a form of idolatry, since it ascribes a human characteristic to God.