This is incorrect. The planets are named after Greek and Roman gods, and not vice versa. They did not believe that the planets were literally their gods. Saturn, for example, was actually called "the star of Saturn" in ancient Rome.

Matthew(or the author of the book of Matthew) and Jesus were nowhere near the first people with internal dialogue. There were many religions by this time which had both male and female deities--some of which both men would certainly have been aware of. A male deity, such as Zeus or Jupiter, generally ruled above their female counterparts--as men generally ruled above women in human society. If you only have one god and you haven't considered that it may be above the concept of gender, it makes some sense that you would call it "He". Even more sense in the case of Jesus, since he already had a worldly mother.

This post was edited by Shadowoffury on Feb 11 2026 03:06pm

yeah you are correct about the romans but the people long before them looked at planets as gods. the part about internal dialog was just a joke.

if the messengers of God are all male, perhaps that signals that males need divine education more than women. that seems to check out as women naturally connect better with each other and are more naturally connected with their spirituality and intuitive side

This post was edited by MildSambal on Feb 11 2026 04:26pm

Because daddy issues are a thing among the religious people. Also because of ego. People want to feel special so they invent gods which favour or proclaim to be chosen by them. Men would feel insecure if female gods were to lead them. They need to make them male otherwise the narrative doesn't work as well. Female gods if any are only gods which belong in the kitchen or things like love, beauty, fertility and other gay shit.

Thats how you know all gods are made in man's image.

This post was edited by addone on Feb 11 2026 11:46pm

Lol none of this is true. Zeus, for example, king of the Olympian gods--although he created man, wanted to keep them ignorant, harmless and subservient. It was the titan Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man, for which he suffers eternally.

Your view on goddesses is also wrong. Zeus himself feared Hera in many cases and was often incapable of preventing her from carrying out plans against his wishes and even directly against him personally. Athena was goddess of wisdom and war, not of staying in the kitchen. Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Etc.

That's called compelling storytelling. You got got. God's are ranked above man. Zeus is supposed to make men to be beneath him to serve him as underlings. He is representing a king/ruler. Hera is his queen/wife/sister as they were children of Chronus and Rhea.
Sometimes you can't control your wife as she can go crazy. But at the end of the day he was still the main leader. Don't forget Athena was also a goddess of handicrafts and later she was syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Which was a combination of law, wisdom and arts etc.
By a great majority most important roles were held by male counterparts.

My opinions> Male gods>female gods>mortal heros imbued with magical powers>kings>nobles>peasant males >women and children> slaves>animals>your opinion

I don't see how this makes sense as the Christian view is the highest human person that has ever existed is Mary. She is above all other human persons, even above all angels.

This post was edited by majorblood on Feb 12 2026 03:46am

Can you do tier list of all the magical creatures and beings from the Bible?
That way we can know who is who in the hierarchy. Include everything, the talking donkey, cherubs, Cockatrices, leviathan, Satan, angels, belzabub, Lilith etc

Also the bible
Ephesians 5:22-23
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

This post was edited by addone on Feb 12 2026 04:16am

I thought you read the bible and knew it better than most other people? some of those are not in the bible

so what? quote the whole thing, that part of paul's epistles is beautiful

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

This post was edited by majorblood on Feb 12 2026 04:20am