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AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 day agoI have a friend who is a vicar, and she tends to use They/Them for God, which I find interesting.
I also met a few people who use different pronouns for the Holy Trinity. She/Her tends to be either the Holy Spirit or the Father (the Father being She/Her seemed odd to me, but this person felt quite strongly that the Holy Spirit was They/Them, and that Jesus was He/Him).
They/Them tends to be used for either the Holy Spirit or Jesus (Jesus says “I am He” at one point, and the argument here is that this isn’t Jesus saying his pronouns are He/Him, but rather that “He” refers to the entity who made Jesus — I.e. God).
He/Him tends to be used for Jesus or the Father.
Even amongst people who don’t use pronouns other than He/Him for the Christian God or one of God’s aspects, I’ve heard quite a few people argue that He/Him != he/him (and that They/Them != they/them etc.) and thus God uses neopronouns.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I always tend to use ‘they’ when the gender is unknown. I read it somewhere long ago and thought… wait… why is this plural? And learned it is a gender neutral pronoun. I refer to everyone I don’t know as ‘they’ now. God is more of an ‘it’ in my mind, but that’s beside the point.