[harmonygirl]

If we choose to believe in the Great Spirit (or the Creator, etc), then I think that such artificial restraints as gender are ludicrous, when you consider you are describing the entity(s) that created gender in the first place. While I do to some extent ascribe to the Gaia theory, I don't know about attaching a gender to time. I think as long as your consider your approach balanced, as Guille pointed out this is all belief, not provable, so it's kind of hard to argue against (or for). Unfortunately I think a lot of organized religions have derogated from their main duty (which I think is to assist with personal realization of the Goddess) and gone on to striving for political power, which is generally the antithesis of spirituality. Defining the Goddess as "he" or "she" falls into this for me (because it lays the foundation for assertion of superiority of one gender over another). Politically, we created the Goddess, spiritually the reverse. I haven't been able to reconcile the two.