“Telling me *you* cannot do something because of your religious beliefs is okay. Telling me that *I* cannot do something because of your religious beliefs is not okay.” -quote
Avi K: IMHO calling someone a *Noachide* still imposes the Torah-view onto someone of a different religion.
It can alienate someone else, especially when a lot of individuals have pride in their diverse beliefs. Who likes to be told that they are wrong or of another type?
At first I felt that non-Jew was offensive, but I think it’s better than “goy.”
After I read some research articles about non-X’ians and non-Muslims and didn’t take offense to being referred to a non-something because it was really a way of saying that I was not part of the group (which technically is accurate, and it doesn’t make me less human), I now prefer to say non-Jew.