This should be obvious.

Consider my immediate family: my wife (female), me (male), our son (from this union of male and female). Consider my dog: dam (female), sire (male), dog (product of the union of male and female) (female, since you asked).

Consider the animal world, the plant world. Tell me: Is there any creature in nature, high enough on the chain of being to be measured with the naked eye, that is not the product of the union of two genders, two sexes, two distinct and complementary compass points?  Is it not clear that harmonious nature is something that is clearly and definitively female and male?

And you say God is a motherless male trinity, that God is a nuclear family that contains a Father, a Son, a masculine Holy Spirit, but no Mother? What planet are you from?

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This should be obvious.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Joseph, the creator-of-record, the muse of the pews, invested a certain amount of time in the making of animals, and was glad to have done so, called it "good." When God reportedly sent a flood to punish the Earth in the days of Noah, God saved just a handful of people — and made sure that every kind of animal was preserved, that every breed, every insect, every toad, survived. Or that's what it says in the Bible, anyway. You do believe, yes?

 At the end of the book of Mark, as Jesus is being assumed into heaven, he says, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Every creature. Says right here, brother. Is The Word True? Well, of course it is.

And you say animals have no souls? You say that you can abuse nature in the name of “dominion”? You have no trouble with the statement, “God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours’ “?

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This should be obvious.

You say God has sent death and destruction into this world because of the sins of the people — the thoughtless slip-up, the choice of lover, the moment of anger, the soul in torment, the mind broken, the wrong word spoken, the wounded heart.

Really? It seems very clear to me that the trouble all creation now endures has largely been brought into the world by people who believe that they (and only they) have a handle on religious truth.

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I tell you what it is, boyo. I just cannot worship a God whose sense of justice is inferior to my own.

But you can worship any Jerk you please.