On the word "god"

[broadbandjunkie]

A follow-up. Do you have to capitalize the word "God" if you don't believe in God? Strunk & White is silent on godless grammar.

Writers of religious texts used to wash their unworthy hands before and after transcribing the name of God (that is, the word they used to refer to God).

Now it's just another worthless three-keystroke word among other

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on saying, writing GOD

[nonself]

he's so polite he's not forcing you to say his name in any other way. My teachers (all catholic and believers) used to get mad when we used a small letter for pronouns for God (like He, Him) in essays we wrote in school. Interestingly, the bible that i read now uses small letters. i don't know, write it the way you want it.

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[humbleprophet]

Did they also get mad at you for writing bible instead of Bible?

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[broadbandjunkie]

Crucifixion! Double crucifixion!

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[nonself]

i honestly don't remember. mukang hindi naman ata haha

[humbleprophet]

How far will Zoroaster get you?

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[broadbandjunkie]

Beyond good and evil?

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[humbleprophet]

Shaitan!

I guess it depends.

[st0nata]

For technicalities' sake, say, when transcribing moans from porn movies, we have to write, "Oh God, fuck me harder", or "Oh, my God! He had the biggest cock I had ever seen."

I used to always transcribe it with a lowercase g, again because I thought it had a more universal appeal, but my editor corrected me-- saying that since it was American dialogue we were transcribing, it was more appropriate that we use the proper noun. Because generally, the American people believe still do believe in the uppercase God; it says so right there on their currency.

Re: I guess it depends.

[broadbandjunkie]

If you're having sex and your god is in lowercase, then it's not very good sex, innit?

[st0nata]

Hahaha! Good point.

[f_mac]

i believe in a lower case god. but not in lower case sex.