Why do people write G-d instead of god?

[Anonymous]

I've seen it a lot on here. It's looks like they're censoring a curse word

[Anonymous]

In Judaism, it's a tradition not to write or know the name of the Creator.

[Anonymous]

Yep. It's a Jewish thing.

[Anonymous]

Answer here:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Why+do+people+write+G-d+instead+of+god%3F

[Anonymous]

Every time I see it written that way, my brain automatically translates it into "God-damn" even though I know better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Judaism, it's a tradition not to write or know the name of the Creator.

But God is not his name. His name is YHWH, Yahweh, Yehovah, Adonai, Elohim, etc. God is not his name, almost more of a title. So I'm not sure why people think that God is any more off-limits than He, Him or the Lord.

Yes, I'm not Jewish, but it has also often puzzled me why some people apply that tradition to referring to God.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Judaism, it's a tradition not to write or know the name of the Creator.

But God is not his name. His name is YHWH, Yahweh, Yehovah, Adonai, Elohim, etc. God is not his name, almost more of a title. So I'm not sure why people think that God is any more off-limits than He, Him or the Lord.

Yes, I'm not Jewish, but it has also often puzzled me why some people apply that tradition to referring to God.

If it's lowercase g, then it's just one god of many. If it's uppercase G, then there's only one and it's effectively a proper name.

[Anonymous]

Every time I see it, I say, "Oh, this person's Jewish."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see it, I say, "Oh, this person's Jewish."

I have a Muslim friend who does the same thing.

[Anonymous]

In some coutries, it is officially spelled with a lower case letter

[Anonymous]

Orthodox Jews

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see it, I say, "Oh, this person's Jewish."

I have a Muslim friend who does the same thing.

Strange he would not use, Allah (SWT)

[Anonymous]

Concerning Muslims and "G-d", see http://www.asmib.com/introduction.htm:

What is "G-d"? Imam W. Deen Mohammed, leader of the largest indigenous group of Muslims, has explained that in order to show due reverence to the Name of G-d Almighty, that we not use any spelling that could in the reverse mehttp://www.asmib.com/introduction.htman "dog"

[Anonymous]

Sorry that the URL got embedded in "mean" in the last line above.

[Anonymous]

From what I understand, Jews do this because the name is too holy to write on paper (as it can be thrown away).