Why the fuck do people decide to capitalize "him" when it refers to God? I mean, believing is cool and shit, but a pronoun is still a goddamn pronoun.

Okay. Thanks for reading.

9/8/2009 6:47:43 PM

well duh

because it's Him

9/8/2009 6:48:09 PM

probably so you can distinguish him from any other him but notice how i refuse to capitalize it because i'm irreverent

9/8/2009 6:49:49 PM

I mentioned this same thing in one of my bubblebloggle posts I think

9/8/2009 6:50:30 PM

because "He" isn't a "she"

9/8/2009 6:50:48 PM

I guess while we're pointing things out

I thought "goddamn" was two words

I mean, I'm actually pretty certain of that

9/8/2009 6:51:38 PM

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get off the internet

9/8/2009 6:52:48 PM

I support this thread

because "a pronoun is still a goddamn pronoun"

9/8/2009 6:52:56 PM

There is substantial evidence to prove that the Lord of lords is a male.

9/8/2009 6:53:37 PM

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"a pronoun is still a goddamn pronoun."

You piece of shit, you should ALWAYS capitalize when you use His name in vain!

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"Lord of lords"

LOL

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9/8/2009 6:53:38 PM

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"get off the internet"

+1

9/8/2009 6:53:48 PM

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"There is substantial evidence to prove that the Lord of lords is a male."

it's His mammoth genitalia, isn't it?

9/8/2009 6:55:16 PM

it's His mammoth non-existence

9/8/2009 6:56:43 PM

what if you were smote by a penis of unfathomable size? would that make you believe?

9/8/2009 7:00:02 PM

ATHEISM

9/8/2009 7:00:03 PM

atHeism

see it's right there in the word

9/8/2009 7:01:07 PM

at He is m

Holy shit.

9/8/2009 7:04:29 PM

damn d00d

I think we just proved God's existence

9/8/2009 7:05:34 PM

it's so you can stress the importance of the word.

9/8/2009 7:09:17 PM

But he isn't.

OWNED.

9/8/2009 7:11:50 PM

k

9/8/2009 7:28:42 PM

9/8/2009 7:40:24 PM

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"STILL A GODDAMN PRONOUN"

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9/8/2009 7:51:03 PM

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"[user]STILL A GODDAMN PRONOUN[/user]"

9/8/2009 7:51:37 PM

?

9/8/2009 7:54:00 PM

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"Why do people decide to capitalize "him" when it refers to God?"

It started in some translations of the Bible where there's a few "he" and "him" pronouns in a passage, and the passage talked about God and a person. The translators capitalized the ones referring to God to make it clear who the reference was made towards. I guess it's just a habit that some folks picked up from that. I do it that way.

9/8/2009 8:02:56 PM

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"it's so you can stress the importance of the word. "

but he is fictional thus not important

9/8/2009 8:05:18 PM

I'm not arguing one way or another, I know half of tww are born again atheists and have no problem insulting anyone who has any form of faith. I'm just answering the question on why people capitalize it.

9/8/2009 8:07:02 PM

i am not atheist just not naive

9/8/2009 8:09:45 PM

elohim

9/8/2009 8:10:02 PM

Well I'm happy for you! Keep up the good work!

9/8/2009 8:10:17 PM

I'm just going to capitalize the whole goddamn word when I write HIM and then I'll have the biggest high horse of all.

9/8/2009 8:15:10 PM

I refuse to capitalize americans, (the) french, british, and so forth.

9/8/2009 8:28:58 PM