tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 22 13:58:29 1996
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Re: God's Name
- From: Dixon <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: God's Name
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:58:13 -0300
> As Christianity spread and its sacred teachings had to be taught in many
>language, "God" was translated as the receiving language's generic noun for "a
>god", to emphasize that God is the only god and needs no personal name to
>distinguish him from other real gods. For that reason the English call him
>"God" and the French call him "Dieu", and the Slavs call him "Bog" or "Boh",
>etc, and not "Deus" or "Theos", even in the old days when all Western Church
>business was done in Latin.
I agree with this. In my opinion though why not put Jesus Christ in Klingon
and disregard "God" it is an apparent general term. But the next question is
how would you write "Jesus Christ"?
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