I voted atheist, but I do believe in egalitarianism in the sense that all humans are equally human. No one is more inherently holy than any one else, but people can make "good" or "bad"* choices which makes some people better off than others. The inherent worth of every human? The inner light?
I don't like the word "god" in the first place because it implies that "god" is male.
There is certainly a lot of "sexism" in orthodoxy, (in my ever so humble opinion, anyway)
I prefer the word "Supreme Being" or "Divine Being" or "The Tao" (or other eastern concepts).
I don't also reject (in a purely literalistic way) the concept of a Higher Power. If the Divine is Supreme it is not a Higher Power, but The Highest Power (which Supreme Being implies, I would think).
I saw a bumper sticker once, "God doesn't believe in atheists".
I had a bumper sticker once, "God is too big to fit into one religion".
I had another bumper sticker "My Karma ran over my Dogma."
*this depends on how one defines "good" and "bad"
God is generally now a gender-neutral term. Anybody who overly insists on gendering God must have some strange, unbiblical, anthropomorphic view of God.
I do take serious issue, too, with comparing Christ and the church with men and women. Christ without the church is all powerful - the church without Christ is an empty vessel. Is man without woman at all like Christ without the church?
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