God and Sex

[kerry]

Given the fact that Colorado is a battleground in the marriage wars, I've been thinking and reading about marriage and sex a lot recently. It has occurred to me that in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, God does a lot of things that humans do. God creates, loves, thinks, knows,eats, breathes, sees, hears, is angry, jealous, benevolent, longsuffering, just, etc. But one thing God does not do is sex. Can anyone think of any exception to this? I suppose one could argue that God had a son and this seems to imply a sexual relationship between God and a woman, but the emergence of the idea of the virgin birth could be explained as a direct attempt to avoid this implication.

What are the cultural implications of an asexual God? Would we be better off with a sexual God? Why invent an asexual God to begin with?