• G-d instead of writing the ‘o’
  • Because respect (avoid erasing/disrespecting)
  • Capital letter. Respect? Or just proper noun? Research.
• You-Know-Who in Harry Potter
  • Because fear
• Names are only crude representations, but our minds create association between name and thing
• “Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
• Even if my spiritual / metaphysical beliefs and representations don’t depict a distinct entity god, having rituals as reminders of the importance of metaphysical concepts may be appropriate