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Y&P (why do I suddenly feel the need to go grocery shopping???), Hashem is referred to in masculine terms, because it makes it easier for us to conceptualize “Avinu Shebashamayim” when we bring it to our own humanistic terminology. When we want to think of Hashem as being Meracheim, we often use loshon nekeiva.
In any case, I think people DO sometimes take things a little too seriously, but that is part of the problem of READING and not hearing others’ words and seeing their facial expressions as they speak.
Personally, I do not take offense at mostly everything I read here, because I believe people need to be able to express themselves without fear of retribution, Divine or otherwise (unless they say something REALLY awful, and the MODS usually catch those things before they get posted, anyway). I don’t think what you posted was a terrible thing to say, I get the context in which you said it, and it applies to many of us (myself included, at times).
I also believe that there are many things that we Jews do, because they have become acceptable minhagim, but nonetheless were most likely not Hashem’s intention (not claiming to know Hashem’s intentions, folks). One example of that is the idea that it is mamesh awful to wear clothing that has some color to it. There is no Mitzvas Asei that I know of, wherein Hashem said, “Thou shalt only wear black and white!” I think back to the FJJ letter to the Shadchan in which a mother of a girl refused to allow her daughter to go out with a nice boy because he was wearing colorful sox when he showed up for the date.
Feeling that this was just plain stupid, is not being a self-hating Jew, or angry, or ANYTHING like Michael Savage, who apparently has a great deal of animus inside him, and (from the few times I have listened to him whiole driving)doesn’t allow many frum people to express themselves, but interrupts them in the middle of their attempt to make a point that is not in concert with his own point of view. Part of that problem, IMO, is that the frum Jews who DO call in, are not necessarily particularly articulate and they don’t make their point quickly and/or well.
I think people worldwide are crazy. We all have our shticklach, and personally, I find it makes life more interesting. The only time I find the word “crazy” to be offensive, is when someone is nebbich actually mentally ill, and people make fun of him or her. Otherwise, yes, we are all a little bit nuts.