archbishop of canterbury sez god is gender-neutral

[DanaC]

'gender neutral' is how this is being reported - but it's an over simplification

He was responding to someone contending that God is a woman:

Justin Welby has rejected Ariana Grande’s suggestion that God is a woman. God, he says, is not male or female

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“God is not male or female,” the archbishop said in a lecture at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. “God is not definable. All human language about God is inadequate and to some degree metaphorical.”

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“God transcends the human distinction between the sexes,” says the Catholic church catechism of 1993. “He is neither man nor woman: He is God.”