While I am not personally an atheist, this was the only religion-centered community I could find to post this article, and surely we polytheists and atheists can find a united purpose in condemning monotheistic bias.
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I have never capitalized it unless it starts a sentence. If anyone has looked at human history, there has never been “the god”. The christian god is just one more on the stack of hundreds of thousands of gods over the years. Hijacking such a simple word probably does help play into the mind-fuck though.
I only capitalize god when referring specially to the Christian god, because it’s basically also his name. Same with “The Lord.” It’s capitalized because it’s being used as a proper noun to refer to a singular entity.
Just because the character is fictional doesn’t mean you stop using their names and titles like a proper noun when referring to the character.
Biblically speaking, the true name of the lord is unknown to humans. “God” is just a nickname. And as My article argues, we shouldn’t use that nickname, we should find a more neutral and polite nickname to use.
Isn’t it Yaweh?
Yahweh is just an old Hebrew word for “god”, but it’s a lot better than saying “God” in English, because it’s specific. It places the word within an appropriate cultural context and doesn’t carry the same subtext in English. Nobody today believes in another Yahweh, so it isn’t stepping on anyone’s toes. It’s a much better nickname.
I wonder what would happen if English made like German and just made all nouns start with an majescule. LORD and Lord actually represent two different things in the source materials, so it wouldn’t make sense necessarily to go all caps in, say, the KJV
