Originally posted by Zahlanzi
there is a subtlety here.
you can't complain that it is stupid to think the supreme being looks like ordinary people when the story says we were created after god. so its not god that looks human, it is humans that are godly.
I am talking about the human attributes attached to the Jewish god which has morphed into Christianity and Islam.
'I am a jealous god' and so forth. These are, in my humble opinion, NOT something a real god would EVER say, considering such a god allegedly can call in whole universes at its whim. I say its because it would probably not be biological at all and therefore would have no use for genderifcation or any other human attribute.
Therefore these attributes were just made up by the early writers in order to project boogy men, instill fear into the natives for the purposes of control.
And in my opinion, as most of the original writers were men, set things up in such a way as to make the population think women were second class and that is exactly how it has come down the generations now, thousands of years of second classness engendered in stone in the bible with Leviticus verses in 27, like the one that says women are worth 30 shekels and a man 50 shekels. That is written in stone and as people are duped by the billions into thinking these verses were written by a god, they set the stage for thousands of years of gender bias.
I see no other interpretation of these facts.