Talk:Reverential capitalization
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In King James 21st Century from BibleGateway and Purple Letter from BibleHub?
[edit]Capitalized pronouns refering to deity as archaic? 136.158.7.225 (talk) 22:59, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
Scholarly response
[edit]Article by academic and Bible translator, Bill Mounce. Some of his points could be used in the article. It may be worth further research regarding the earliest usage of reverential capitalization in English editions of the Christian Bible.
https://www.billmounce.com/monday-with-mounce/should-we-capitalize-divine-pronouns — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agbneill (talk • contribs) 17:06, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Personal choice
[edit]While proper names are capitalized universally, reverence for any particular divinity is not universal. In short, when pronouns that are usually lowercase are capitalized, this usually implies that the author personally reveres and regards as a deity the antecedent of that pronoun.
This imply writing God is a personal choice rather than just a convention of language. I don't think any atheist or a believer of non-Abrahamic religion would think much about capitalising words that refer to God; or for that matter, some abrahamists might capitalise say Hindu or Japanese Deities out of respect and it wouldn't mean they are worshiping them. Nngnna (talk) 18:43, 16 September 2023 (UTC)