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God and god
Is that right?
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I'd suggest taking an overall-look at the cultures in the book and maybe look through it with their lens?
It's going to vary across authors, but when I write "God" I do intend the one true God, Jesus. If "god" or "gods" I'm referring to idols of other beliefs, lets say Greek mythology.
Hope that gives you a spectrum to work off of?
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Thank you both for the comment it definaly clear an issue for me.
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I agree with Mallory in this. God is used to preferably in monotheistic religions and gods in polytheistic religions.
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Angela Stripes wrote:I think at one time there might have been grammatical rules like what has already been mentioned, but in more modern times capitalization is used more to reflect respect, intention, personal belief of either the author, characters, or both.
I'd suggest taking an overall-look at the cultures in the book and maybe look through it with their lens?
It's going to vary across authors, but when I write "God" I do intend the one true God, Jesus. If "god" or "gods" I'm referring to idols of other beliefs, lets say Greek mythology.
Hope that gives you a spectrum to work off of?
I think the authur made a mistake in the use of the word Gods. This is a dialogue I took out of the book . note errors in qoute
My take“No, they weren’t as… big as all that,” Inez said looking out at the gods.they “They just had a bit of an ego. Wanted people to be in awe and all that nonsense. Course, that didn’t stop them from letting people believe they were actually hundreds of feet tall. Gods are very good at talking themselves up. And people believed the stories they were told. You’d think by now people would know better than to trust gods. Gods lie about everything.”
The gods is the word to use in the above qoute.
@juliusotinyo, @mallory Whitaker was your take on the authors dialogue that I qoute above.
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I was taught that way too. That a Christian God should have a capitalized G and other gods small g.Abfaniki wrote:I am reading this book. The author use the word Gods. I won't say I was taught but I recall someone once told me that the word God should be capitalized when refering to Christian God only and that other deities or gods should be written with small g.
Is that right?
But I believe different religion entities have different way of writing the word god depending on what they believe in.
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Or am I wrong? Should gods still be lower-case when starting a sentence to show the difference between God and god(s)?
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I think this author did it right. Generally, gods is the right one to use here. Except, the author used Gods to start a new sentence. Despite the fact that gods is what he's referring to, the rule of starting a sentence with a capital letter still stands.“No, they weren’t as… big as all that,” Inez said looking out at the gods.they “They just had a bit of an ego. Wanted people to be in awe and all that nonsense. Course, that didn’t stop them from letting people believe they were actually hundreds of feet tall. Gods are very good at talking themselves up. And people believed the stories they were told. You’d think by now people would know better than to trust gods. Gods lie about everything.”
So I think you're right.MsTri wrote:I know I'm several weeks late in commenting, but I just wanted to point out that in the example given, the only place "gods" is capitalized is at the start of a sentence, where every word should be capitalized vs. the word being lower-cased when used in other places, as it is in the exampe.
Or am I wrong? Should gods still be lower-case when starting a sentence to show the difference between God and god(s)?
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