re: #163 windsagio

Since you bring up the subject, why do you censor ‘G-d’ when its not a name, but rather a general descriptor? That’s bugged me (in the sense of made me wonder) like forever :p

It is force of habit that I sometimes slip on myself because I too do not find it necessary.

There are a whole bunch of very deep reasons not to write the Name of God particularly the Tetragrammaton.

The reasons range from, it is literally His name that He told us is His name, and you don’t call your dad or a king by his first name - all the way through a discussion of Goedel’s incompleteness theorem.

The short for being that a Name is a definition and God defines you , not the other way around.

But the actual word “god” is not His name, it isn’t even Hebrew.

So why bother being careful with it?

Because it became habit in the Jewish world to extend the courtesies of Hebrew to English of a reminder of a deeper principle - and I see no reason to quibble with the sentiment behind doing so.