To: Yaelle; All
I have a question about your post, please...
Is "God" a disparaging word? Why did you choose to post His Holy Name without an "o?" What am I missing?
Anyone?
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
51 posted on
01/01/2005 2:49:41 PM PST by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
I think that is a form of reverence, and not to be uttered lightly.
52 posted on
01/01/2005 2:50:18 PM PST by
Maigrey
(Prayer Warrior just a Ping away...)
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Jews reverence the name of God so much they refuse to write his middle initial.
54 posted on
01/01/2005 2:51:22 PM PST by
rwfromkansas
("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
because they awe at the name and want to set it apart.
55 posted on
01/01/2005 2:51:53 PM PST by
rwfromkansas
("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Oh, I don't mean in any way to offend.
In Judaism there is a rule not to put the name of G-d on something that could be thrown away. So when we write His name on something like a regular piece of paper or a cyber message, we leave out the o. It's actually a sign of respect for G-d's holiness.
68 posted on
01/01/2005 3:03:32 PM PST by
Yaelle
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
To people of the Jewish persuasion, the true name of the Lord is so holy that anything that bears any resemblance to an actual name is to be avoided. Many feel that God is to close to being a name.
This poster, of the Christian persuasion, knows that god is only a term for that which people consider deities in general. However, this poster is usually willing to defer to the sensibilities of other followers of the lord of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
89 posted on
01/01/2005 3:31:57 PM PST by
jimtorr
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Probably because she is Jewish.
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
"Is "God" a disparaging word? Why did you choose to post His Holy Name without an "o?" What am I missing?"
Many folks leave out the vowel when writing so that, should the material be desecrated in some way, it would not be blasphemous.
Desecration can occur when printed matter is soiled or dropped or stepped-upon. For a web page, I guess copy-and-pasting to DU would do it...
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