# Christianity 101 Questions from an Ex-Mormon **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 23, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932 "2019-04-23T12:53:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932/121 "2019-04-30T00:32:40Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Using the trendy “they” could be construed as polytheism… Does your branch of Christianity believe in the Trinity? “They” seems pretty appropriate in that case. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932/122 "2019-04-30T05:06:54Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > God is generally used as the pronoun as well by some congregations. Though it leads to some strange constructions like “Godself”. Which congregations do this? I’m thinking it could get awfully awkward and redundant. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932/123 "2019-04-30T05:11:40Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Does your branch of Christianity believe in the Trinity? “They” seems pretty appropriate in that case. Those Christian denominations that believe in the Holy Trinity don’t believe the term means three separate beings, so “they” would not be accurate in that case, either. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932/124 "2019-04-30T11:52:08Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Which congregations do this? I’m thinking it could get awfully awkward and redundant. I have nonbinary and trans friends and have trouble with their pronouns. I mostly use their names, and avoid pronouns. You get used to it. And in liturgy where someone had time to think about how to cast the sentence, I’m sure you can manage in a mostly-elegant way. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932/125 "2019-04-30T16:05:43Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Which congregations do this? I’m thinking it could get awfully awkward and redundant. I have known a lot of ELCA congregations (including mine) who try to avoid the male pronoun for God and have said “Godself”. And I have heard a version of the blessing that says instead of “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” goes “Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer”. It’s not necessarily a rule, but a practice that some people emulate. Though a really awkward version of the blessing that I recently heard used by an ELCA Mission Congregation was “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Mother of us all”. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932/126 "2019-04-30T16:31:00Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > i tend to refer to god as “he.” my sister refers to god as “she.” neither is accurate, but there’s no good alternative. Using the trendy “they” could be construed as polytheism, which would also be inaccurate for those of us with monotheistic belief systems. I’m open to suggestions. weme3 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932/127 "2019-04-30T16:33:17Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > weme3 Sounds like the God of Weebles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christianity-101-questions-from-an-ex-mormon/832932.md?page=6)