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Why do Christians spread grammatical ignorance and treat the word "him" like a proper noun?
14 Answers
- DuckLv 77 years ago
It's a respect thing. You aren't just speaking of some 'him' somewhere. You're talking about Him. Just like many faiths don't use the proper noun 'God', but use 'G-d' when referencing Him, because they believe you aren't supposed to state the name.
- The Goat NoseLv 77 years ago
Newspapers of record are the bastions of grammar style. This is the standard rule by just about all of them and the dictionaries they use:
God is capitalized when it functions as a name. God is a proper noun like any other name.
As for the pronoun, we no longer capitalize Him.
You capitalize pronouns that refer to God to show reverence for His name - so privately its capped, at work it’s lowercase.
- travaler_teacherLv 47 years ago
Most Christians are grammatically ignorant because most Christians are not well educated.
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- mesquiteskeetrLv 67 years ago
Any noun or pronoun used toward identifying a deity can be correctly be capitalized.
- Anonymous7 years ago
It is proper in the context that it's used in. Him refers to someone of importance and when referring to God it is customary to capitalize his name and He, His.
Source(s): Reading the Bible. - ?Lv 47 years ago
Because "He" is not a 'he'. The vernacular not only implies gender, but sex. While God has gender, He doesn't have sex. The capitolization is to distingish His pronoun from all others since English is ill equipped to do so.
- 7 years ago
It isn't grammatically incorrect. It can be capitalized when the antecedent is God.
- SatanLv 47 years ago
It's not grammatically correct, but it is politically correct.
Being Satan, I care about what's PC.