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I’m super amused whenver people write about their god in their posts, but they write it “g-d” instead of “god.” Like, as if god is browsing Tumblr, sorting the naughty and nice (making a list and checking it twice) by who uses his name, but he’s only about as tech-savvy as my late grandma who no shit up and quit her job in a huff the minute computers replaced typewriters ) and so he’s super easy to fool and won’t catch on (god probably types one finger at a time.) As if tricking a supreme being is as simple and easy using l33t to fool filters on old message boards (look it up, kids.) Even when I was Christian, I would have never done this - I honestly never thought any being worthy of being called a god would be so easily fooled. I kind of imagined a god being a bit smarter than that, a bit better at being, you know, a god, but hey that’s just me.
I’m told this is done for respect, but the message I get every time is that they think they can pull a fast one and god won’t know any better. It just - it cracks me up every time.
maybe it wouldn’t crack you up as much if you actually did like… basic research and learned why people type G-d? like you clearly don’t get it.
first of all, it is often Jewish people who do so (not all Jewish people, of course; some Christians also do it) and laughing at the religious practice a deeply persecuted group is actually not an awesome thing to do.
secondly, it is not trying to “pull a fast one” on God. it is literally JUST a sign of respect stemming from an interpretation of a commandment in Deuteronomy that commands against destroying and erasing God’s name. the logic is that, if you don’t write it out, you won’t be able to erase it.
there’s a lot of discussion on this topic, with some religious leaders and scholars arguing that this rule only applies when God’s name has been written out in Hebrew. others refuse to discard anything containing God’s name in any language or write it out.
that’s it. just because you don’t agree with or understand something doesn’t… make it worthy of mockery.
Oh honey I did look it up and it only got funnier. Found a website where they said typed it that way on their site for feed that someone might print a page and then throw that page in the trash.
Of all the -
And like I said, writing it god or g-d is the exact same -theyve only just made the latter an alternate spelling.
Of course I prefer to write it as ‘imaginary friend.’
And dude, I will mock this just as I mock the idea that the earth is flat. People get respect, not every nonsense thing in their head. And if ya do something funny, I’m going to laugh.
I’m thinking it might also stem from taking God’s name in vien? (Just an assumption based on the commandment of not taking the lords name in vien).
But tbh, everyone has their own thing when it comes to God. There are many demoninations with a list of ‘rules’ so it’s hard to tell exactly why a person is blanking out the name.
That’s what I assumed. That or because they find the word itself holy. But writing god and g-d is basically functionally the same, that’s my point.
1) in Judaism, the Lord is omniscient and omnipresent. It’s aware of all things, including, of course, words you type on tumblr.net
2) the “alternate spelling” is what’s religiously prescribed, there’s nothing internally inconsistent about the rule. I can promise you with absolute certainty that you are not a better rules lawyer than thousands of years of Jewish scholars.
3) as a Christian you’re not supposed to follow the laws of Judaism. they are Jewish laws, which are… for Jews. following Jewish rules about the name of the lord would have been meaningless for you, whether or not you had been willing to do it.
4) many Jews follow various aspects of religious law regardless of what you might consider level of “religious belief”. there are many practicing atheist and agnostic Jews because our religious practices tie us together as a cultural group. your picture of religion here is clearly pretty stuck in Evangelicalism, with regards to both how vital belief in a deity is to “religion” as a concept in your opinion, and how you seem to assume that members of any group want non-members to observe ingroup religious practices. but whether you believe that Jewish ethno-cultural-religious practices constitute religion or not, please understand: mocking theism because you don’t believe in a deity and mocking Jewish laws and practices because you don’t get the logical arguments behind them are very different things, and you are doing the second thing.
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