Why do Jewish people write g-d rather than God?
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For Jewish people specifically,
~quote
Judaism does not prohibit writing the Name of God per se; it prohibits only erasing or defacing a Name of God.
~endquote
Any person of the Jewish faith that wrote the name of G-d would be giving everyone who read it the opportunity to "erase or deface" the name of G-d so this is why that faith does not write the whole word.
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