Two speakers discuss belief in God beyond traditional personhood. One argues that viewing God as a non-personal consciousness avoids limiting the concept, while personifying God as male reinforces patriarchal structures and diminishes its vast power.
Do you believe in a God?
I believe God as not a person. Okay. Yeah, I don't think— because it's too limiting in my opinion. Yeah, um, if we personify God, then you strip him, if his gender is male, of all the expansive power that, you know, that might be capable of.
Correct, correct. And might also encourage patriarchy, I guess, because it's like, oh, kasi God.
And I just, yeah, I have so many contradictions about the personification of the God. I, I believe more in the spirit and in consciousness, that there is this greater power that we don't know of and that cannot be explained by science, correct? That governs not only us, not only this, um, um, Earth, not only our solar system or our galaxy, but the entire, you know, universe. Okay. Yeah, and we're all interconnected in that way. Whatever happens to us here is affecting everything else that is existing. That's my belief. Well, let's
