text: i don't understand!? i go to a privit catholic middle school (st.anthony's)and every friday we have mass in our church, and i hear them tell me  "thanx be to our father god.thats fine but why  father. no one has die and gone to heaven and come back to tell the tale other than jesus, so who are we to guess that god is a man?why not a women or both, since they say we are all made in the image of god, we all, not we all men. don't be stuck on one word -- believe in the concept...god is within you