God or god ???

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  • Narkissos
    Narkissos

    With the old Deities hath it long since come to an end:- and verily, a good joyful Deity-end had they!
    They did not "begloom" themselves to death- that do people fabricate! On the contrary, they- laughed themselves to death once
    on a time!
    That took place when the ungodliest utterance came from a God himself- the utterance: "There is but one God! Thou shalt have no
    other gods before me!"- -An old grim-beard of a God, a jealous one, forgot himself in such
    wise:-
    And all the gods then laughed, and shook upon their thrones, and exclaimed: "Is it not just divinity that there are gods, but no God?"
    He that hath an ear let him hear.-
    F. Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra.

    This won't answer your typographical question (especially because in German both nouns and names are capitalised) but at least it is a witty way of pointing to one logical problem of having "God" name himself by a noun which stands for a category of beings ("gods"), while his existence as "God" depends on the negation of said category.

    Once a "god" becomes "the only god" he becomes ipso facto more than a "god," i.e. not a "god" anymore. He doesn't belong to the god-kind -- nor to any kind for that matter (deus non est in genere). That is the apory which the capital "G" expresses -- but doesn't solve.

  • parakeet
    parakeet

    I'll capitalize "god" if you capitalize "atheism."

  • drwtsn32
    drwtsn32

    I prefer "G-d". Or sometimes "_od" if I'm feeling frisky.

  • caliber
    caliber

    parakeet,

    I'll capitalize "god" if you capitalize "atheism
    ..... you have yourself a deal ... Cal
  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    It depends on the context in which I am using it.

  • FlyingHighNow
    FlyingHighNow

    Riddle:

    What does an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac do?

  • Caedes
    Caedes

    I'm afraid I will not capitilize the word god unless it occurs at the beginning of a sentence. There are lots of gods, yours is no more real than any of the others. I wonder if you realise how disrespectful it is, of all those other religions, to assume that your god is their god.

    Respect is earned not given, your belief in a myth is no more worthy of automatic respect than someone who believes in astrology. If however you can provide me with empirical proof of your god then I will start capitilizing whatever name he goes by.

  • Caedes
    Caedes

    http://atheism.about.com/od/doesgodexist/a/capitalization.htm

    Christians are accustomed to using God because they always reference it in a personal manner - they say that "God has spoken to me," not that "my god has spoken to me." Thus, they and other monotheists might be taken aback at finding people who don't privilege their particular god concept and so reference it in a general manner, just as they do with everyone else's god. It's important to remember in such cases that it is not an insult simply to not be privileged.
  • Witness 007
    Witness 007

    During love making it's "GOD" in full capital letters!

  • LouBelle
    LouBelle

    Does hilter remain Hitler whether or not you use a capital letter. It's a letter - pure and simple. Way too much overthinking for such a simple thing. It doesn't change the defination of the word.

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