[Psycho_Bunny]

"G-d".

Please.

It always reminds me of Lord Russell talking about a conversation he had with a nun. He asked if she wore her habit all the time and she told him yes. He then asked what she did when bathing. She replied they get in the tub fully clothed, pull a black sheet over the tub, and get undressed beneath that.

He asked why, because there couldn't possibly be a man around to see her naked and she responded, "You forget the good Lord".

Which made him realize that she viewed God as some sort of omnipotent peeping Tom who could see through brick walls but was foiled by a piece of black cloth.

"G-d" is the same to me. Is God the only party that does realize what you're saying? That he won't be accidentally profaned by anything said - so long as you drop the "o", leaving him completely baffled as to whom you were talking about?

I can see the conversation at Judgment now: “Well, it seems like you profaned someone three times in your life but the person was ‘G-d’. I don’t know who that is so, you can have a pass on it”.

I know it’s a long standing Jewish tradition but, it’s ridiculous. And it’s very difficult to take people serious when they write this way.

[BMCDA]

And it's the same thing with offensive words. Some seem to think that these words (especially four letter words) are less offensive if a letter is replaced with an asterisk, hyphen or an other character or that the moderator is that dumb as to not get the meaning of these expressions.

[BibChr]

That and these three things:

1. "G-d" is a commonly-used expression in American English... and it isn't reverent!
2. God Himself uses, and both moves and commands others to use, His names literally thousands of times in both Testaments, without enjoining any cutesy little ostentatious look-at-me games. Therefore
3. Affectations such as this are, at best, nothing less than attempts to be holier than God.

Not that I have a viewpoint on the issue, of course. (c;

Dan
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[Mat_Helm]

Well, you are not fully aware why it is forbidden for Jews to do this. The name of God can not be uttered and only once a year and than only by one person the high priest after he entered the holy of holies. Those that did so risked death and the wrath of God. It was a special day in the ancient times when practicaly the whole nation stood by to be able to hear the name of God pronounced out loud. The high priest would enter the holy of holies only once a year and with a rope tied around him incase he died and than had to be pulled out becuase nobody else could stand in the presense of God. After he came out he would shout the name of the Lord.

To many christians it is the same as the commnandment to not use the Lord's name in vane. This is true for writing as well. It is a sign of respect and reverence for our Lord the same way that christians always use capital letters even for the pronouns.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

I know it’s a long standing Jewish tradition but, it’s ridiculous. And it’s very difficult to take people serious when they write this way.

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