Religious people , why is it common practice to refer to God as a ""him"" (not to be sexist or whatever), but wouldn't it make more sense that God is not of either gender?

The short answer tradition the long answer is the in Judaism the basis of most religions in this world drink with Christianity and Muslim they had to give some credit to the males as a Jewish they had to give some credit to the males as Jewish lineage matrilineally this is something that occurred up until World War II which is why you see the official records of the Nazis stating that if your mother or grandmother was Jewish and if you prove that you were the less than one-fourth of Jewish you are not considered Jewish by the Nazi regime there were exceptions to this of course for example allegedly Hitler's grandmother was Jewish in addition to that many of the older societies were matrilineal however there was a king of the god in several of these older societies you had Odin to the people of the North, jupiter to the Romans, Zeus to the Greeks, and Perun to the Slavs. Most of the cultures listed with the exception primarily matrilineal