Despite the fact that we intuitively know that God has no gender, or rather that God has characteristics of both genders, the bulk of our religious traditions represent God as male.
This is compounded by the fact that there is no gender-neutral pronoun for addressing God.
The Christian tradition uses Lord and Father on most occasions although there are some feminine images associated with God.
So our unconscious archetype for God is masculine no matter what we may think consciously.
This is important because we must navigate the unconscious to establish a relationship with God.
And if we reject the masculine stereotype of God we may be rejecting our own unconscious image of God.
So perhaps it is wiser to allow both images of God to co-exist rather than enforcing one over the other.
So using He or Father or Lord is still a legitimate way of addressing God.
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