#014: Does God Have A Penis? (HOTW: Mark Karris)

Aren’t we all made in God’s image? If so, why do some act as if God is Male? Heretic of the Week: Mark Karris and more!

Show Notes

• 00:21 – Introduction and word from show sponsor Unfundamentalist.
• 03:15 – Call to the hotline. Dan from Unfundamentalist teaches the difference between a forward-slash and a back-slash.
• 05:11 – Text to the hotline. Jesus without religion.
• 06:35 – Introduction to heretic of the week, Mark Karris. Mark explain why people may think he’s a heretic. Questioning the Trinity and a violent God.
• 11:45 – Mark explains his deconstruction process and the cult he was saved in.
• 15:30 – Fear-based religion. Parent issues and images of fathers. Projecting on to the divine.
• 17:45 – Divine echoes: reconciling prayer with an uncontrolling God.
• 19:45 – Petitionary prayer.
• 20:58 – Does God heal or intervene? Miracles.
• 21:28 – Conspiring prayer.
• 22:26 – God’s uncontrolling nature. Evil and suffering.
• 24:56 – Justice. Petitionary prayer can be a hinderance.
• 26:21 – Many times we are the answer to our own prayers.
• 28:18 – Blaming God.
• 30:16 – End of interview with Mark Karris.
• 31:51 – Start of topic, “Does God have a penis?”
• 33:04 – Patriarchal christianity projecting a male quality on to God.
• 34:10 – Jewish patriarchal societies making God male. Projecting who we are on to God.
• 35:50 – The Bible and what God is like.
• 37:00 – Creation and understanding God has male and female qualities. God is not genderless, he is gender-full.
• 38:38 – Non-binary terms about gender.
• 39:15 – Problems with interpreting the Bible.
• 42:00 – The Bible is not a unified voice.
• 43:08 – The feminine attributes of God in scripture.
• 45:50 – Calling God, “Mother.” Pronouns for the divine.
• 53:09 – God’s name in exodus, “I am.” or “to be.” The grounding of being or consciousness.
• 55:24 – Humans in the image of God.
• 1:00:01 – The messiah as the suffering servant.