My guess is the people who program the spell check feel the misguided need to honor islam at the expense of the real God of the Bible.
2006-11-28 02:11:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1. Because there's no context check. And because the word "god" is used more frequently than "God" - this is because somewhere along the line someone decided that when referring to the Deities of religions other than Christianity and Judaism, it shouldn't be capitalized. In book after book written by Westerners, you'll see phrases like "the god Vishnu" rather than "the God Vishnu".
So if you want to blame someone, blame the people who decided that only when referring to the tribal god of the Abrahamic religions should the word be "God".
2. "god" isn't a name. Akbar is - it's the name of a famous Indian Emperor. Jehovah is a name, too, and that gets capitalized by the spell checker..
Stop being so paranoid - this isn't evidence of religious discrimination against Jews and Christians - if anything, it's evidence of Western discrimination against all the other religions in the world that have their own God or Gods ...sorry, "god or gods".
2006-11-28 03:19:03 · answer #1 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It shouldn't capitalize either. Akbar is not a name of God but rather means 'is great' (actually greater). The word 'God' can refer to the one true God, in which case is should be capitalized, or to anything that is considered a god, like an idol, in which case it should not.
Context is everything.
2006-11-28 10:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though I am Christian, I do not believe the people behind "Yahoo" are somehow biased toward one religion or another and are showing it by causing the spell check program to not capitalize "God." The word God and the word god are both words. God with a lower case "g" denotes not Almighty God, but even the Bible speaks of "gods" and "lords," just that they are not almighty God or the Lord Jesus, silly.
:)
2006-11-28 10:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by berdudget 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Interesting...I didn't know it did that.But then again I'm not Muslim so I don't write Allahu Akbar much.
2006-11-28 10:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by Vtmtnman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man programs computers, man is the one who fails if they do not have Jesus in their lives.
Matthew 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
2006-11-28 10:14:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Um, no. Please do not tell me you are this stupid.
"god" is a word, meaning "a deity". Spell check programs usually don't recognize proper nouns.
2006-11-28 10:14:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Or they don't believe in a god either.
It seems you are threatened by this....
2006-11-28 10:14:22 · answer #7 · answered by Heck if I know! 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋