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No need for 'God the Father' Catholic feast

By: jesusa send a private message
Manila : Philippines | 2 months ago  
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The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines website reported that the Catholic officials nixed the calls of devotees for the institution of a liturgical feast honoring "God the Father." According to CBCP's Fr. Anscar Chupungco, they do not "see the sense of instituting a day in the year to honor God the Father when the whole year belongs to him.”

Those pushing for such a feast don't seem to understand that the Catholic (even all mainstream Christian traditions) religion is already patriarchal and biased for a male concept of God.

The Catholic Church is well aware of this, which is why it tries to balance this by instituting Marian devotions. Most non-Catholics think Marian devotion is paganism. But what do they think of religions conceiving of God as only male in form, etc.?

How could God be so biased towards the male? If humanity is indeed 'made in the image and likeness of God,' then the Creator must be FEMALE because female is the default sex--in the human species, at least.

I'm not defending the Catholic Church--just recognizing that they at least try to balance off the slant towards patriarchy.

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  • Posted By ahol888 ahol888 | 2 months ago
    Technically, if you look at the word origin for the word woman, it means "man with a womb." Therefore, man is the default.
  • Posted By jesusa jesusa | 2 months ago
    Hi ahol888.

    Your "technically" argument is limited only to the etymology of the words "woman" and "man" in the English language and has nothing to do with the biological nature of woman and man.

    In the first place, only the patriarchal languages have the word for female human derived from the word representing the male human. In my country the Philippines, for example, the national language have very different words for woman and man. Man is "lalake" while woman is "babae." Same with Spanish, where woman is "mujer" and man is "hombre."
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