The 'g' is capitalised because in the context of The Bible and Christianity, 'God' is a name. The name of the Christian god is God in English language translations of The Bible. He or it may also be referred to as Yahweh, a Hebrew name for the Jewish and Christian god, or by other non-English names. But all those names will have a capitalised first letter in an English language context, as that is standard in English grammar.
It's like if you named your son 'Son'... Or your pet cat 'Cat'. You see?
But this isn't only reserved to the Christian god. The 'A' of Allah, the word for the god of Islam, is capitalised as it is also a name. All the names of the gods of ancient Greece have capitalised first names when written in the English language. This is standard. It just happens that in English, Christians tend to call their god 'God'. Understand?
I'm Canadian, which makes it all the worse. Sometimes we use a British spelling and sometimes an Americainized one. Happy to speak with someone in the centre of Civilisation.
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The 'g' is capitalised because in the context of The Bible and Christianity, 'God' is a name. The name of the Christian god is God in English language translations of The Bible. He or it may also be referred to as Yahweh, a Hebrew name for the Jewish and Christian god, or by other non-English names. But all those names will have a capitalised first letter in an English language context, as that is standard in English grammar.
It's like if you named your son 'Son'... Or your pet cat 'Cat'. You see?
But this isn't only reserved to the Christian god. The 'A' of Allah, the word for the god of Islam, is capitalised as it is also a name. All the names of the gods of ancient Greece have capitalised first names when written in the English language. This is standard. It just happens that in English, Christians tend to call their god 'God'. Understand?
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I know... I wasn't really arguing that it should be not capitalized; I was just joking...
For me it doesn't matter anyway because in german god is spelled with capitalized "G" ("Gott")
Incidentally I don't care how God/god is spelled...
Capitalized, moron. Capitalized, not capitalised.
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Guess what country I'm from?
The UK.
Guess what we speak here in England?
British English.
Guess how we spell "capitalized"?
Capitalised.
Feel educated now?
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I'm Canadian, which makes it all the worse. Sometimes we use a British spelling and sometimes an Americainized one. Happy to speak with someone in the centre of Civilisation.
British (english) sucks but you're right!