from now on, im never capitalizing the word "christianity / ian" or "god" or "jesus".
2007-05-15 08:30:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To the 1st answer:
i realize that, that isnt the point
2007-05-15 08:37:30 · update #1
YOU GUYS ARE TOTALLY MISSING THE POINT
2007-05-15 10:06:31 · update #2
That's your choice, of course. Myself, I always capitalize Christianity, Christian, and Jesus, but never atheist unless it is part of an organization's name (e.g., Atheist Alliance or American Atheists). I capitalize God when I'm referring to the Abrahamic God, but use a lowercase "g" when referring to a deity or group of deities.
2007-05-15 08:37:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Capital letters tend to be given to organised mass movements eg Communism, Christianity, Judaism, Fascism, Democracy etc. Atheism isn't an organised movement but a standpoint. Humanism, on the other hand, is an organised movement and so we use a capital letter for it.
The other thing is that Christianity is a word based on someone's name: Christ, as with Buddhism, and so, naturally, uses a capital letter. Ultimately, while you can quite happily not capitalise some of the words you mention, the name Jesus should stay with a capital. You write your name with a capital, don't you? Well so should you Jesus. Its a name like any other.
2007-05-15 12:10:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism only gets capitalized at the beginning of a sentence or is part of the name of an org. like American Atheists. Other than that, it's not considered a proper noun.
2016-05-19 01:35:10 · answer #3 · answered by salome 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that YOU do whatever you want, does not mean it's the right way!! Christianity is a "proper' name for a religion, like Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, those are "proper" names, atheism is a "common" name. So you think you are so "intelligent" not to believe in God, but not intelligent enough to know the basic grammar rules??? Sad!
2007-05-15 08:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by Millie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not a religion. It is an opinion. Religions are proper nouns and are capitalized, like names and holidays. Do what you want with your caps lock/shift buttons. It won't bother me, but your English teacher may count off points if you ever write the word in an assignment. :)
2007-05-15 08:34:32 · answer #5 · answered by Erin C 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't capitalize either one. I don't capitalize god either because it is just referring to a nonexistent deity, but I do capitalize Jesus as that is the name of a person.
2007-05-15 08:36:44 · answer #6 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theism is no more a proper nown than atheism. Christianity is. Um, don't you guys go on and on about how atheism is not a religion? Let that be a clue to you.
2007-05-15 08:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
atheism isn't capitalized since that would be improper english. i bet spell check capitalizes other religions, so you shouldn't capitalize any of them other wise you will have defeated your purpose to make stuff equal or whatever it is you are trying to prove.
2007-05-15 08:37:38 · answer #8 · answered by dbobb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simple grammer, Atheism is not a pronoun, Christianity is.
2007-05-15 08:41:47 · answer #9 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
PROPER ENGLISH
This is so because 'Christ' is a formal title, like King or Queen. Atheist is not a title, like say... left-hander or southerner.
Other examples of associative nouns derived from proper nouns:
-Muslims
-Americans
-African-Americans
-Humean
-Nietzschean
Other examples of non-proper noun associatives:
-capitalist
-theist
-ornithologist
2007-05-15 08:37:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋