The creator of VeggieTales says God being nonbinary is backed by the Bible

This story originally appeared on Them.Phil Vischer, the co-creator of the Christian-themed animated series VeggieTales, pointed out that God doesn’t have a gender according to Biblical canon. Naturally, transphobes are absolutely losing it. After Texas Democrat James Talarico easily won his bid for U.S. Senate in a “blue wave” of midterm victories, right-wing pundit and podcast host Gunther Engelman posted a jab on X referencing Talarico’s support for transgender and nonbinary people. Specifically, Engelman meant to mock Talarico’s 2021 comments on God’s gender, which centered on an interpretation of the Hebrew used in Genesis.“The first two lines in Genesis use two different Hebrew words to describe God,” Talarico, who has a master’s degree in theology, said. “One of them is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity. The second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.” His conclusion? “God is nonbinary.”In the 2026 election cycle, Talarico dismissed his own comments as being “provocative” under right-wing scrutiny but that hasn’t stopped conservatives from continuing to glom onto them, even after his win.“Just a reminder to all Texans… God is not non-binary,” Engleman wrote on November 5. Vischer, who has spent over three decades using talking produce to teach very real Bible lessons, subsequently took to social media to correct this take on the Abrahamic God.“‘God is a biological male’ is a weird hill to die on,” Vischer wrote in response to the post. If you were a kid in the 1990s and early 2000s — especially if you attended a Christian school, daycare, or otherwise child-centered religious educational space — chances are you’ve seen VeggieTales. For those unfamiliar, the CGI-animated series was first released in 1993 and follows Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber through their misadventures, instructing the audience in Christian moral lessons along t