Posted on 12/23/2021 7:13:29 PM PST by marshmallow
A student at the Catholic Loyola Marymount University was dismayed to find out her professor deducted points on her final paper because the student referred to God with the masculine pronoun “he.”
The student, who decided to remain anonymous, was marked down by Professor Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, a professor of theology and theological aesthetics. In a filled-out rubric, Gonzalez-Andrieu explained why the student had lost points on her essay, writing that she “Uses male-gendered language for God repeatedly.”
The student contended that her paper, which was written for a religion course entitled “Care of our Common Home,” should not have lost points for using language consistent with the Bible and her Catholic beliefs. In an email to the professor, she noted that at “multiple times throughout the Bible, God is referred to as ‘he,’ then going on to say “I feel targeted by your comment, as I was raised in the church with the belief that God is a male.”
She also cited the Apostle’s Creed, which includes references to God as “the Father almighty” and refers to him with the word “his.” The student added, “This is my belief and at a Catholic university and in a Christian course you should not be able to take any points off for this.”
Gonzalez-Andrieu responded to the student by reaffirming her decision to penalize her for using male pronouns in reference to God. Gonzalez-Andrieu told the student that in order for her to receive the points back, she’d have to “have a conversation with other scholars” in the footnotes. She also requested that the student “resubmit your paper and add a footnote stating your reasons as a scholar to opt to preserve male language for God.”
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Doesn’t God refer to himself in the masculine.
Yes, yes He does.
This is stupid.
Jesuit University Student.
California Jesuit University Student.
How many layers of wokeness can you spot????
Well, He is.
“I was just quoting Jesus and The Bible”
WTF?! No - she used the correct terminology.
The professor should be sacked immediately.
"Then I will deduct some more points because you are a homophobe and a racist."
Communists on the right...
Communists on the left...
Communists in the pews & pulpits & Vatican...
I’d then quote the bible phrase that when you are punished for your faith, you earn rewards in Heaven.
I don’t think I’d be a good student anymore.
“I was just quoting Jesus and The Bible”
Ah, there’s the problem.
Uh...maybe because GOD uses "male-gendered language" for Himself??? Didn't Jesus say, "Our Father who art in heaven..."?
Now, obviously, God is a Spirit and has no genitals - male OR female, but Jesus Christ came to earth as a man and He exists eternally now in His glorified human man body. I'm a woman and I have no problem with this truth. This theology professor is ridiculous.
Exo 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
It’s long past time that “Catholic” universities lose that distinction.
Jesuits.
She’s probably one of the few who choses to refer to herself as gender neutral “Latinx”.
“…Gonzalez-Andrieu told the student that in order for her to receive the points back, she’d have to “have a conversation with other scholars” in the footnotes. She also requested that the student “resubmit your paper and add a footnote stating your reasons as a scholar to opt to preserve male language for God.”…”
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I wonder if adding a footnote saying “Sola Scriptura” would be sufficient.
Would the professor mark down Jesus for referring to God as “Father”?
The professor is misgendering God.
Jesus, you get -5 points. You too, Mark.
GOD probably doesn’t have a ‘sex’.
But human be-ans always seem to view and symbolize spiritual things through their limited material lenses.
It’s understandable, if probably mistaken.
(On the other hand, maybe polarity functions even in the spiritual world; but I try not to conjecture beyond my ken.)
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