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ilikeverin
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« on: November 18, 2012, 05:12:46 PM »

Obviously that's easier to implement if you don't have a written liturgy and the person speaking can just say whatever they want.

Eh, plenty of pastors and such play around with the "established liturgy" willy-nilly.  One of the pastors at my East Lansing church usually substituted "She" for "He" or found a gender-neutral term even when it was printed otherwise.

I predict Bible translations in 100 years or so will be using "They"/"Them", because, as pointed out, it's mostly viewed as an accidental holdover, and God definitely appears using feminine imagery as well as masculine imagery in older texts.  Now that English is getting a third-person singular animate pronoun, we'll be able to replace "He" Smiley
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