Preferred Pronouns - This Is Not an Example of Loving Your Neighbor

[@menji6332]

Kind does not mean nice. And it never has. Kind still holds people accountable. Nice is just being pleasant. If a parent didn’t care about their child, then they are not kind to them because that child will not learn discipline and that certainly isn’t kindness.

[@newcreationinchrist1423]

Amen 🙏🙏🙏 God bless you

[@wootenbasset8631]

Thank you

[@ricksonora6656]

I looked at 38 Old Testament translations, plus the Hebrew, and 46 New Testament translations, plus the Greek. In Genesis 1:27 and 5:2, Mark 10:6, and Matthew 19:4, every version said God created them male and female, except for a few that said man and woman or “a man and a woman.”

[@snookoed]

And?

[@geraldbritton8118]

​@@snookoedAnd the original question contains a false assertion

[@snookoed]

@@geraldbritton8118 Yes!

[@corinneperegrini6003]

Amen🙏

[@jacobnussbaum2309]

"what about it being unkind to the person who's being bullied into using those pronouns" What an exceptionally disengenuous and uncharitble presentation. Why would you frame the question around the most aggressive context you can imagine? Does bullying behaviour around these issues exist? Certainly. Is that the context the original question was submitted in? No. I'd wager that is not the context 99.9% of times someone asks for preferred pronoun use. But if you warp the question to the least charitable context then you can certainly use it to help justify the answer you want to get to, rather than actually facing the challenge head-on and weighing out the ethical values to come to a conclusion. I love apologetics and Christian philosophy wherever I can find it, but unfortunately I have still yet to see a STR clip that rises above a PBS or FOX segment when it comes to bad-faith engagement.

[@emcgowan3431]

If the person expecting you to use his or her preferred pronouns is polite, then you're obligated to participate in the person's deception? No, deception is deception. You can politely refuse.