(March 7, 2018 at 7:27 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:Eve Keneinan Wrote:the atheist is simply attempting to conflate God with a god in order to set up a strawman and/or trying to annoy you by belittling God—while ignoring the basic conceptual distinction that all European languages mark by differentiating the word “God” from the word “god” by capitalization.
Who gives a shit? Some people have the bizarre habit of capitalizing a pronoun when "God" is the antecedent. This practice has no precedent outside of circles of believers and in no fucking way marks a logical distinction. If I chose to capitalize the word "house" when referring to my own particular place of habitation, would this assign my particular livingspace special significance over others? --"My House is the third house on the left. Just past the white house with the red trim, you will find my House." I fail to see how capitalization proves anything. And, even if it does... guess what? Zeus is capitalized!
Yeah I find the idea of a god named God quite amusing. It's like naming a baby 'Human'. Admittedly I've always wanted to call a pet dog 'Dog'.
Add to this that their god is also supposed to be male. Yet it's never really explained why. When christians are so keen on assigning and judging gender roles according to biological function, yet don't seem to grasp that if their god is male then by their standards he must have a penis and be able to produce sperm to impregnate a female (presumably female gods who don't have DNA that evolves over time).
So really, to avoid confusion and to not avoid giving undue respect, if we capitalise the word 'God' then we should always be clear that we mean it as a name. Therefore we should refer to their god as Mr God.
