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5823238 No.5823238 [Reply] [Original]

So, /lit/, when you're writing the word "god" do you capitalize the G, or do you leave it in lowercase?

>> No.5823243

the fuck kind of ape tier question is this, it depends on the context

awful thread, please do us all a favor and delete it

>> No.5823244

>>5823238
>not gOD

fucking fun die

>> No.5823256

>>5823243
>denigrating my question because he thinks the world is in black and white

captcha: ifiath hominem

>> No.5823262

I use God when talking about the Abrahamic God, and use god when talking about a general diety.

>> No.5823266

I just write Substance instead.

>> No.5823269

>>5823262
>>5823266

That about sums it up.

>> No.5823362

>>5823238
>what are proper nouns
You capitalize God when referring to the Abrahamic one because that's his name, not entirely original but there you go. Lowercase god when your referring to the idea of such a being. What I don't do is capitalize pronouns when I'm referring to him because even God can't break the rules of English grammar.
I capitalize Spider-Man when I'm talking about Peter Parker's alter-ego, I don't capitalize it when I'm talking about some fantasy race of spider-men.
Pleb.

>> No.5823367

>>5823362
how did you manage to be so wrong while being so smug

>> No.5823375
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5823375

>>5823367
Because I'm on /lit/ and that makes me a cunt.

>> No.5823394

Well, I capitalize the 'g', but also write it as 'G-d'

>> No.5823406

>>5823394
That's real fuckin' stupid, Anon.

>> No.5823420

Capitalize, even in plural. You don't say "the emperor", you say, "the Emperor". God as title or as name should generally be capitalized, but there are obviously exceptions. "Become a god," "like a god," etc.

>> No.5823436
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5823436

I deliberately used lower case

when I have to refer to the common deity I refer to it as "the Christian god"

I mean christians shouldn't have a monopoly on godhood right? Lot's of people have made up gods over the years like Baal or Kali.

>> No.5823443

Conventional Bibles use capitalization in conventional ways for the names of God.
For instance, the New Revised Standard Version and many other Bibles use "LORD" in small caps to stand for YHWH.

>> No.5823446

>>5823436
do you say "the Greek zeus?"

dumbfuck

>> No.5823462

>>5823446
There's nothing to salvage from your post, you missed both correlations. Big time.

>> No.5823825

>>5823446
I'm not op but I would think that people would understand you if you just Zeus seeing as there aren't much people named Zeus. As for God on the other hand, there are many.

>> No.5823835

>>5823825
>As for God on the other hand, there are many.
No, there is only one. There's disagreement about his exact properties, though.

>> No.5823840

I don't capitalise god but my first instinct is to not capitalise many things anyway. Why should france, christianity or microsoft get a proper noun identification when it is obvious from context. Perhaps when it is actually personified "France goes through to the semi final" but most of the time it is unnecessary. I realise I am an outsider in this view but the urge not to capitalise is strong and I usually have to force myself to adopt the accepted style.

>> No.5823846

> grammatical question
> 18 replies
When you use "God" as a name it's capitalized ("God smote Joshua", "God created the universe").
When you're talking about a god not as a name it's not capitalized ("pagans believe in many gods, Christians believe in one god").
It works exactly the same way as the word "dad" ("I'm calling Dad tomorrow" vs "I'll call my dad tomorrow").

Fucking retards.

>> No.5823871

>>5823846
If you think this is simply a grammatical question or you think there is one simple answer to grammatical questions then you might well be the retard.

>> No.5823876
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5823876

>>5823835
There's only one God, ma'am.

>> No.5823996

>>5823367
He's correct. What are you griping about?

>> No.5824017

>>5823871
This
All these people missing the point of the OP, it isn't a question of grammar in which this >>5823846 is unquestionably right, it's a question that could be rephrased: are you fedora enough to deliberately write in lower case e.g. "In The Bible, Joshua said to god".

>> No.5824053

When I'm referring to any monotheistic god in the singular, I will always capitalise, even if it's not grammatically perfect: e.g., in 'is there a God?' but otherwise, I use the lowercase whenever pluralising or referring to a member of a pantheon.

>> No.5824066 [DELETED] 

>>5824053
There's an seeming exception to my own rule in that post in 'monotheistic god', but in that instance I'm referring to it as one among multiple theoretical monotheistic gods, so I guess I should just adjust the word 'pantheon' in there to 'group'.

>> No.5824067

>>5824053
There's a seeming exception to my own rule in that post in 'monotheistic god', but in that instance I'm referring to it as one among multiple theoretical monotheistic gods, so I guess I should just adjust the word 'pantheon' in there to 'group'.

>> No.5824120

>>5823876
There is only one god, and his name is Death.

>> No.5825236

>>5824120
*War

>> No.5825243

>>5825236
i use lowercase cause fuck god

>> No.5825247

Do you guys capitalize he/him/his/himself when referring to God?

>> No.5825249
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5825249

I do not believe in god.

The year is 2014. Humanity has peered into the darkest corners of the cosmos, and observed the universe on its smallest scale. You walk around with more computing power in your pocket than was available to all of NASA in the 1970s. You live twice as long as your ancestors ever could have dreamed of, you have food in abundance and the future is brighter than ever. Humanity has achieved more in the last century than it ever has in its entire history. People are happier, freer, crime is lower, you're safer, more secure, and the entire wealth of human knowledge is available to you at your finger tips. You live in the dawn of humanity, you were born after the long dark night and you will never know the suffering that every other generation did.

And you still think the words of dehydrated desert madmen in the middle east are literal truth, you unironically believe in God and think gender is biological.

You're literally a walking insult to everything humanity has ever achieved, lmao.

>> No.5825404

>>5825249
>and think gender is biological
9/10, enjoying your work so far.