re nature of god re environmentalism and paganism in article apr athos rutgers edu heath athena cs uga edu terrance heath writes fortunately my own personal theology which will probably not fall into line with a lot others recognized god as a being both without gender and posessing qualities of both genders as being both a masculine and feminine force that is not necessarily unorthodox when christians call god father we are using a metaphor the bible in one place refers to god as being like a mother god is neither a father nor a mother in the literal sense god has some of the attributes of both the father metaphor is usually used because for most people at most times it is the less misleading of the two possibilities michael a covington associate research scientist artificial intelligence programs mcovingt ai uga edu the university of georgia phone athens georgia u s a amateur radio n tmi
