‘VeggieTales’ Creator Phil Vischer Faces Backlash After Stating God Has No Gender

After implying that God has no place on the gender binary, Phil Vischer, co-creator of the Christian animated children’s show VeggieTales, has spent the last week fighting off conservatives who insist the creator of the universe is a biological male.

“Let’s be clear:  If you believe the eternal God, creator of the universe, is a male (or female) of a gendered species, you have departed from Christian orthodoxy,” Vischer wrote on X on November 10. 

This post, like the tens of others he has authored on the subject since first weighing in on God’s sex a week ago, was immediately met with disdain.

“WRONG. He calls Himself Father. Why don’t you believe the name He chose for Himself?” one user wrote.

“Jesus was circumcised per Luke 2:21,” wrote another.

How It All Started

As first reported by Them, it all started when Vischer first weighed in on the debate on November 7, replying to an ongoing X debate between right wing pundits and Christian theologians.

“”God is a biological male” is a weird hill to die on,” was Vischer’s initial contribution.

Since then, Vischer has made numerous posts and responded to dozens of hostile comments clarifying his position, among them a screenshot of a 13 point treatise (a screenshot due to it exceeding X’s character limit) explaining very gently to conservatives the basic theology underpinning his claims. 

In it, Vischer asserts that God is a being of divine, not biological, origin, one that created and therefore precedes human sex or gender. He goes on to point out that Jesus in his human form may accurately be described as male. 

No, Phil Vischer Isn’t “Woke”

While Vischer remains adamant that the Christian God exists outside of the biological gender binary, this basic theological tenet is by no means proof of “wokeness”, nor does it make him a proponent of trans or non-binary people.

In a later comment, Vischer still described human gender as an “immutable” characteristic, and reinforced that male and female are “biological realities”. He also made clear that due the political connotations behind the word “non-binary”, we would never refer to God as such.