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The Australian author Bernard Dove invented the words “shi” and “hir” to be used about hermaphroditic beings in his science fiction stories. However, “hy” and “hym” are used about being that can change between male and female. Maybe the “brotherhood” should be referred to as“siblinghood”? I have also made up a religion for a space opera game that speaks about God as “she”. The explanation is that the believers imagine God as being both male and female and such beings are referred to with feminine forms in their largest language.
2007-02-26 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.
[edit] God's Spirit?
I have a problem with the following paragraph. The implication is that animals are capable of the same level of consciousness as humans. I am not aware of any such belief in Sikhism. The implication is also that Sikhs animal worship. This is not true
#God’s spirit: All creatures have God’s spirits and must be properly respected. Show love for all living things. Mistreatment or harming of any living creature is tabooed and forbidden. Remember, your next birth may be as a different animal.
Sikh's acknowlege that God is within those who are capable of being a Gurmukh, i.e. those capable of higher consciousness, on our planet there is only one creature capable of this, and that is the human.
