Should we stop referring to God as ‘he’?
by Ian Paul, Psephizo:
Last week the polling company YouGov published the results of a survey asking Christians what they thought about God’s gender. Their ‘shocking’ discovery is that very few agree with Ariana Grande’s claim in her latest single:
With Ariana Grande’s recent single being entitled “God is a Woman” a new YouGov survey reveals that British Christians aren’t so sure about that: in fact, just 1% believe that God is female.
There are some basic problems with the report of the poll itself—the main one being that YouGov don’t give any clear indication as to their sample methodology and what they mean by ‘Christian’ when they claim ‘Christians believe that…’ Are these people who are self identifying? Were they sampling outside churches on a Sunday? Did they ask any questions about actual practice and attendance? Without this information, the ‘Christian’ claim is fairly meaningless.
Despite the YouGov headline, Premier correctly reported the less exciting but more accurate observation that ‘Most British Christians believe God does not have a human gender identity’. But Olivia Rudgard of the Telegraph has managed to make more of a story from the survey, by getting comment from Rachel Treweek, the Bishop of Gloucester:
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