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Do you capitalize the thing in god? I don't.

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soulless 7 Aug 10
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I'm an English teacher, and I can't bring myself to capitalize it. I feel like capitalizing it would indicate personal belief, it would mark it as a proper noun, it would give special credence and respect to that proper noun that is actually a word to indicate many kinds of mythical beings, and it would imply we're all talking about the same concept...when 99% of the time, theists all disagree with each other about what god is.

Not capitalizing it mitigates all those problems.

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Only at the beginning of a sentence like any other regular noun.

dkp93 Level 8 Aug 10, 2019
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Even fictional characters have names. It's no different than Mickey Mouse.

I still don't though.

Edu_0 Level 4 Aug 10, 2019
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I usually refer to this imaginary critter as: The Big Guy in the Sky, Heaven's Honcho, Mr. Magic, Frightening Figment, and so on. However, when I do use the word, I normally do not capitalize it, but it is dependent upon the structure of the comment. I even have the gall to not capitalize it when it's the first word in the sentence.

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I try not to but autocorrect is a bastard! Also, I don’t capitalize sky fairy.

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Absolutely not. I am a strict grammarian, but the origins of this capitalization are based on false beliefs.

@Matias
You mean Santa Claus. No, but by writing SC with capital letters I am not supporting an ideology of oppression, misogyny that still consumes the world for these fairy tales. I am not privileging that so-called god over other gods.

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When I was a kid but not anymore

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It depends on how I am using it. Most of the time I use a small "g." But, there are times when a capital "G" seems appropriate; such as in cases, as LimitedLight stated, when distinguishing the Abrahamic god from other gods, or it is grammatically correct to do so.

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It’s a proper noun In certain contexts. So I capitalized it in this situations.

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Never! since "god" isn't real.

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"God" at the beginning of a sentence, even in quotes, gets capitalized. The word in the middle of a sentence becomes lower-case. That's just a rule of written language, I really don't see a sensible reason why this is getting political.

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Sometimes do, sometimes don't, depends on the sentence and which god, but mostly I just use 'it' wherever I can.

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It's the correct usage for any proper noun, so "The Christian god is known simply as God" would be correct.

Even in the Christian sense it is not a Proper noun it is a pronoun, an identifier not a name
The Lord god (The actual designation for the christian god) is correct as is the Lord god Jehovah capitalising god is purely christian tradition, the same as capitalising Him or He when referring to jesus, again a title not a name or proper noun) it is not gramatical.

@LenHazell53 where your god's name is Jehova, I would agree, but nowadays, the Christian god is known simply as God. It has become a proper noun, even if it wasn't one to begin with. It's quite possible that it arrived at this by being capitalised, as with He and Him.

@NicoleCadmium seen my comment further down about the degeneration and corruption of language by Christians
And according to the bible the ineffable name of God is YHWH commonly Anglicised as Jehovah for ALL Jews and Christians. The word god is just his job description.

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I don't care to capitalize anything to be honest , let aside that god guy 🤢

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No, I have even taught my autocorrect to write god

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Only when I'm being a total ass and mocking hypocritical Christian behavior.

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I usually ignore capitalization but those damned red squiggly lines are hard to ignore. LOL!!!

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What god? Haha.

But nope, definitely not. The statement I’m making by lower casing it supersedes grammar.

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In Dog we trust...god? Not so trustworthy....

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Yes, no, sometimes yes, maybe, sometimes no, hell no, f no, hell yes, who cares, why, why not?....... So many ways to cut this one that actually losses all meaning

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Never unless quoting, also will never use g-d out of "respect"

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I capitalize the G in God as I do the Z in Zeus. It don't indicate any belief. But they are proper nouns.

MrDMC Level 7 Aug 10, 2019

Zeus is a name so in that sense yes it is a proper noun, god is not it is a pronoun.

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Nope! There are so many of them.....can't capitalize one without capitalizing all, so....

Besides--we're all friends here, so--I deliberately show disrespect that way.

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