he/she/they

seph

but I generally don't capitalize things anyhow.

jmorzins

How formal are your deities?

kyrandil

i never understood the whole uppercase pronoun thing anyway.

sauergeek

I've always thought it silly to capitalize pronouns for anyone or anything. Lower-case is standard.

gugod

what if god was one of us ?

quince

I tend to make an exception for the Christian/Jewish G_d out of habit, but not for god/gods in general, or figures such as Jesus or the Buddha.

Ian

I don't think I'd capitalize unless I was quoting some religious text that did so

susannah

I usually avoid using pronouns for my own god altogether. If I need to use something like himself/herself/their selves, I use 'Godself', which does look kind of kooky, but also makes you think about pronouns in that context. When I'm writing about deities in other religions, I use the lowercase pronouns with the appropriate gender and number; I think that capitalizing indicates reverence on the writer's part for the deity in question, which would be inappropriate if I'm not of that religion.

ManWorkingHere

I thought it was accepted English grammar to not capitalize other deities unless they started a sentence.

cshiley

Depends. What's the context? Are they your gods? Are you writing in the tradition, or outside of it? Descriptive or not? I generally do not cap pronouns for any deity unless I'm explicitly speaking within a context that assumes the existence and appropriate authority of the relevant deity. If I'm writing up a summary of a bible story, for instance, I'll cap Lord and God and He. If I'm talking about a bible story, I won't. Not that I'm entirely consistent in implementation. "and then Elijah called three times on the Lord, who made it rain again" vs "then Elijah prays to god, and bam, it rained."

androidqueen

I don't attribute anything particularly great to them.

Yoyo

You're not writing in German. Gratuitous capitalization feels too heavy.

stilvoid

Capital letters are for proper names.

ksil83

i think in an eastern religions class i took, we left them all uncapitalized.

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