Anonymous
09/27/2014 22:46
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
From what I understand, Jews do this because the name is too holy to write on paper (as it can be thrown away).
Anonymous
09/27/2014 22:37
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
Sorry that the URL got embedded in "mean" in the last line above.
Anonymous
09/27/2014 14:45
Subject: Re:Why do people write G-d instead of god?
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
09/27/2014 09:47
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
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
09/27/2014 09:40
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
Orthodox Jews
Anonymous
09/27/2014 09:25
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
In some coutries, it is officially spelled with a lower case letter
Anonymous
09/26/2014 00:53
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
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
09/24/2014 12:07
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
Every time I see it, I say, "Oh, this person's Jewish."
Anonymous
09/24/2014 11:37
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
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
09/24/2014 11:36
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
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
09/24/2014 09:41
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
Every time I see it written that way, my brain automatically translates it into "God-damn" even though I know better.
Anonymous
09/24/2014 09:39
Subject: Re:Why do people write G-d instead of god?
Anonymous
09/24/2014 08:24
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
Yep. It's a Jewish thing.
Anonymous
09/24/2014 04:18
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
In Judaism, it's a tradition not to write or know the name of the Creator.
Anonymous
09/24/2014 03:59
Subject: Why do people write G-d instead of god?
I've seen it a lot on here. It's looks like they're censoring a curse word 