Why do people abbreviate God as G-d? Is there some sort of filter that doesn’t let posters say “God”?
Just FYI - Messianic Jews (and some others Christians I know) also do the same thing. There are very good explanations for why this is done, but that would take us way far away from the point of this thread (and it doesn’t have a LOT to do with Idols - it has more to do with not taking the name of the Lord in vain, and not allowing others to do so using the words they write).