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What does god with a lowercase g mean?
A god is a supreme being or deity, and it’s spelled with a lowercase g when you’re not referring to the God of Christian, Jewish, or Muslim tradition. The ancient Greeks had many gods — including Zeus, Apollo, and Poseidon. The word god also refers to a man of superior quality or exceptional beauty.
What does it mean when god is not capitalized?
“Capitalize the word god when it is used as a proper name as the name of the god of a monotheistic religion, such as the god of Christianity or Judaism, and not capitalize it when it is used as a common noun” — spot on.
Why do we capitalize God?
One of the most common questions people ask about religious words is whether to capitalize the word “god.” The name or title of any specific deity is capitalized just like any other name, so when “God” is used to refer to “the one God” (in other words, in any monotheistic religion), it is capitalized.
Should God have a capital G?
Should I capitalize he when referring to God?
Summary. Yes, the major style guides prefer that personal pronouns referring to God are not capitalized. But they also allow for author (or publisher) preference. So if you (or your client) wants to capitalize He and Him, You and Your, then they can.
Do you write God with a capital G?
Do atheists use capital letters when referring to gods?
So even atheists, if referring specifically to one such deity, will use a capital. When referring to deities in general, or a single deity from a polytheistic pantheon, e.g. Roman, Greek, Hindu, Norse, it is not appropriate to use a capital ‘G’ but instead the lower case: god.
How do you spell God with a capital G?
But you spell it with a capital G when it is a proper noun and a lower case G when it is a common noun. Like the person who already described the cat named Cat, in Christianity, you have a god named God. This is a lot less confusing in other religions. For example in Islam they have a god named Allah.
Is it grammatically correct to say ‘gods and goddesses’?
Of course not—it’s grammatically correct to use a lowercase ‘g’ and write ‘gods and goddesses’. The reason is that in such cases we are talking about members of a general class or category —specifically, members of a group which gets the label ‘gods’ because people have, at one time or another, worshipped its members as gods.
Why don’t Christians capitalize the G in ‘gods and goddesses’?
To understand why we need only observe the fact Christians don’t capitalize the ‘g’ and write about the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Is that an attempt to insult and denigrate those polytheistic beliefs? Of course not—it’s grammatically correct to use a lowercase ‘g’ and write ‘gods and goddesses’.