Should god be spelt with a capital G?

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Yes, all proper nouns begin in upper block.
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Yes if you are referring to the supreme power, then "G" in god should be capitalized. Not only we should write "God" but also replace the antecedent (God) with pronoun "He" and not "he". However, when we are writing the names of the Deities we should only capitalize the names. The phrase 'gods and goddesses'...
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Yes if you are referring to the supreme power, then "G" in god should be capitalized. Not only we should write "God" but also replace the antecedent (God) with pronoun "He" and not "he". However, when we are writing the names of the Deities we should only capitalize the names. The phrase 'gods and goddesses' should not be written in capital letter as they refer to gods in general. read less
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no, it's not! i.e. "he was a god among men"
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it doesnt even matter cos while saying god u dont say wether g is the small or the capital one
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The name of any specific deity is capitalized just like any other name, so when “God” is used to refer to “the one God,” So basically again here we are using a name, that make use to use the capital G
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Yep .. Out of reverence.
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Generally we put G when we are referring to as the Supreme Being,Almighty. But when we refer to multicultural context we put g. Like in Hinduism there are many gods and goddesses so you can see the difference here.
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hi akshay, spelling doesn't consider capital words. spelling means focussing on correct letters used.
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