Why do people strike out the 'o' in God; like this G-d?
915577
It's a Jewish thing. It's a way to respect & honour G-d by not daring to write his name.
902774
because people are led to believe that god controls everything in there lives. \n\nmeaning he made them kick the chair with there toe. or he made them crash the car. etc....\n\nwich isnt true. god doesnt control your everylast move and thought. the people are simply going by something they were tought. \n\nthey also blame him when they have no one to blame. because of the same reason above.
516647
Because they believe in god.  I've found that people that believe in god tend to get upset really quickly.  Especially in the middle east.  They beat women with sticks if they show their ankles or drive a car.  They shoot you if you draw a cartoon and call it Muhammad.  BTW, Here's my depiction of him  []8^(>>>\n\nReligion gives people an outlet to take out their own frustrations on other people.  Just the same that a good dead baby joke does.
932385
I'm taking a stab at it without reading the context in which it was used.\n \nPeople use their devotion to god as a justification for their own motives and actions.  By claiming--especially if ostentaciously so--to be doing the work of god, people often mask their own motives, perhaps even unbeknownst to themselves.  Moreover, their claims of doing god's work insulate themselves against critics of their actions.  "If you oppose my actions, then you oppose god's will."   Unfortunately, the motives of the self-righteous when stripped of their piousness often appear patently contradictory to the values the "devoted" supposedly are attempting to espouse.   \n\nReligion can easily be used as a rationalization for an individual's action, regardless of whether the action is agreement with the principles of the religion or contradictory to them.  \n\nInterestingly, this can be seen in the action of a certain president and a certain leader of a group he opposes.   Each individual act in their own self-interests while blanketing himself in a cloak of religion.\n\n------------\nThe bible warns of devotion's visage and pious acts†:\nBook of Matthew (Chapter 6):\n2: Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. \n3: But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: \n4: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. \n5: And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. \n6: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. \n7: But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
1160725
I'm so with you on that one!! Everything starts and ends with God. But people are people.... Sad but true. It makes me sick to hear people mock their own Creator. They're playing with fire!Literally!
485526
The idea behind this is that when faced with a life and death situation (i.e. a foxhole with people shooting at you), people usually will pray to "whatever God may be listening" just to stay alive.  This is true because people see that their belief that there is no God simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny when your back is against the wall.
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Because most people would not agree that we are all the children of *one* God.  They'd say we are all children of different Gods, and that makes some of us superior to others, saying "my God is better than your God."  Don't remember who said it, but there is the quote "Ideologies separate us.  Dreams and anguish bring us together."
978001
It's called 'do as I say, not as I do." A shocking number of people follow that logic and don't think anything of it. \n\nHonestly though, I don't think alot of people know to practice what they preach unfortunately.
695245
I know. You never hear, "Oh, my Buddha" \nor\n"Mohammed d@mn you".\nI suspect people instinctively know that G-d is real, & so they blaspheme Him to offend either Him or those who are trying to please Him.
859346
there is a price to pay for our actions and disbelief... but God is so far above us ...can we truly understand Him? God is slow to anger and quick to show mercy .... I believe He is a just God ...and will do the right thing always by His very nature
462603
Writing "G_d" is a practice based on the 3rd commandment ("You shall not take the name of YHWH [probably to be pronounced 'Yahweh,' traditionally ' translated as 'the LORD'] your God in vain.") But why and how did this PARTICULAR way of trying to keep the commandment come about?\n\n(In its original context the command likely had, first of all, to not dishonoring God by such behavior as lightly taking OATHS in his name and not keeping them, by extension to speaking or acting "in his name," whether claiming to speak for him, as his representative, or by claiming to follow him, but living in a way that brings dishonor to\nhim.)\n\nBut one significant expression of attempting to guard and honor the sanctity of the divine name (sometimes called the "tetragrammaton" after its four letters: Y-H-W-H) that we find many expressions of after the Babylonian Exile (6th century BC) is in special treatment of the spoken and written name(s) of God, beginning with "YHWH", and at times extending to other names and titles.\n\nWe see it in how the name was written in the scrolls of the Hebrew Bible, as well as in their early Greek translations. After the Babylonian Exile the Jews adopted the Aramaic letter forms in place of their own earlier forms. But among the Dead Sea Scrolls we find Scriptures written in the Aramaic letters, but with the divine name (which in English may be rendered YHWH) written in the older "paleo-Hebrew" script. Many early Greek translations (some as late as the 4th century AD) have the divine name written either in the Hebrew letters, or using Greek letters that LOOK like the Hebrew word. (If read as Greek one would say "Pipi", but there is no evidence such a pronunciation was ever intended.)\n\nAnother way of honoring the name YHWH that grew up at the same time was to avoid SAYING the name by substituting another Hebrew word (for Greek speakers it might be the Greek equivalent). For example, we find references to "the Name". This was at times extended to other divine names. So, for instance, in place of "God" one might say "heaven". We find some reflections of this in the NT, esp. in the gospel of Matthew, who (writing chiefly to JEWISH Christians) ordinarily speaks of the "kingdom of heaven" where other gospels use "kingdom of God".\n\nThe most important substitute was that of the word for "Lord" in place of the name YHWH. The Hebrew word was "ADONAI", Greek speakers used their equivalent, "KYRIOS". In fact, the NT throughout uses "Lord" (kyrios) when quoting OT passages that use the divine name YHWH. (This is important in connection with the claim of Christians that Jesus is divine -- calling him "Lord" was not just honoring him as "Master" but applying the divine name to him.) This practice has continued to be followed in most Scripture translations from the Hebrew, including the use of "the LORD" in most English translations. (Usually small caps are used to indicate that the original used "YHWH" not "Adonay".)\n\nEvidence for the Jewish practice is found in the customs of the Masoretes -- Hebrew scribes who carefully preserved the Hebrew text of Scripture, and added a system of markings, including accents and vowel-markings, to preserve the traditional understanding of the text. In the Masoretic manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible the name YHWH is marked with an unusual set of vowels, which if we tried to pronounce them would yield "Yehowah' [in later English, Jehovah"]. But that is not what they intended. Rather they marked the word with the vowels from "Adonay" to indicate that THIS was the word to be spoken when you came to the divine name.\n\nThe form "G_d" imitates this scribal practice of leaving out the original vowel sounds (to indicate what one is NOT s
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Itis not atheist  writing God in that way,\n mostly Jews write God in that fashion. In the old testament the name of God was so Holy to the Jews that they left out the vowels when they wrote it in the hebrew. That way no one could speak the name of God. . That's why some people pronounce the name of God Jehovah and some pronounce it JHWH(pronounced Yaweh). I've also heard it pronounced JA. Since the vowels were left out, nobody knows the real pronounciation. The Jews when they write the name God in english they leave out the vowel 'O' and it is written G-d.
767883
What are you talking about? which god with a little "g" do you serve that would do such a thing? Not the God of all Glory and Creation, Jesus Christ!
127594
Sometimes, when folks learn a new truth, they get real excited about going out and sharing it with others. Unfortunately some of them will ruin their credibility (and God's) by being kinda pushy about it. \nIt's kinda like giving a child a new toy. If you leave them alone with it for too long they become dangerous with it.
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It's a combination of several things; with pride and love of self leading the way.  We don't like being told what to do or worse, that what we're doing is wrong.  We love ourselves and our sin too much to realize that God is holy...therefore, we either ignore Him, blame Him or are merely repulsed by Him.\n\nSadly, it was Him that sent His Son to take the punishment for all of us who are filled with pride and love for ourselves, rather than others.
843678
Isn't our a body a temple indeed? Yes my dear. People don't realize how much of our lives are under our control. The God angle though? No, doesn't enter in to it.\n\nHA HA! You made someone mad!
137434
Some people just enjoy praying so politely say Amen!\n\n(You are so FUNNY!)