[GOP_Party_Animal]

Why do people abbreviate God as G-d? Is there some sort of filter that doesn’t let posters say “God”?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Orthodox Jews and others are forbidden from writing or saying God. The abbreviation is respectful.

[soupcon]

Why do people abbreviate God as G-d? Is there some sort of filter that doesn’t let posters say “God”?

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I remember from childhood that all Orthodox Jews abbreviate the word God, not wishing to create an idol, even a three-letter idol.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Why do people abbreviate God as G-d? Is there some sort of filter that doesn’t let posters say “God”?"

It's a practice of observant Jews and others who do not want the Creator's name spelled out on anything that might be defiled.

Such as a thread in which McCain is lauded as a "conservative." I'll sigh heavily and vote for him over Obama or Hillary, but only because my distaste for them surpasses my distaste for the amnesty-giving, tax-cut-opposing, POW-abandoning, Keating-Five-ing, First-Amendment-shredding Senator from Arizona. And that's saying a whole lot about my stratospheric distaste for those two DemocRats. I'll vote against them, but not for McCain.

[VRWCmember]

Why do people abbreviate God as G-d? Is there some sort of filter that doesn’t let posters say “God”?

This has probably already been answered by now, but it comes from the Hebrew tradition of using only the consonants in the name of "Jehovah" (Jhwh, pronounced "Yah-wey") whenever writing God's name in the Scriptures. It signifies such a reverence for God's name that we are not even worthy to write the name out in full.