Jews who cannot write the Name of God from Planck's Constant

Flavius Claudius Julianus. 361-363 AD. AV Solidus (4.28 gm). Sirmium mint.

Gold Solidus
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Most of us say things without knowing where the expressions come from or their significance. For example, without knowing the origin of "he's not worth his salt," we know exactly what is meant.

Here quickly is the answer: in Roman times, soldiers were paid in part a salārium, or salt money, as an allowance for the purchase of salt, which in ancient times was sometimes worth as much as gold. That salārium, by various iterations through the ages, turned into the salary one is paid today. Someone not worth their salt is overpaid.

Eventually the Romans overhauled their monetary system creating a new type of solid gold coin called a solidus and those receiving solidi became known as soldiers. In French and German it became soldat, in Spanish soldado, in Dutch soldaat, and in Italian soldato.

Similarly many people today repeat habits without knowing their provenance. In my previous post Jehovah is not the Name of God, I noted that Jews since the time of the Babylonian captivity stopped pronouncing God’s name because of a Babylonian superstition. Blogger Steve Harkonnen [now defunct blog] left a comment asking if I am Jewish and "If so, you're the first Jew to not say G*d. I applaud you for just saying God, like it is... I just think that saying "G*d" is plain stupid."

A quick google search will show that Jews write G*d instead of God for fear that someone may deface the writing or crumple the page and discard it unceremoniously and so on. Similarly, although whatever is written on the Internet is just digital data and cannot be "thrown" into a trash basket, the fear remains that one may make a paper printout and subsequently deface the paper with the name of God on it.

God is a euphemism for the real name of ___ (which I can't reveal to you, heh heh) and since G*d is also just another euphemism for His real name, I don't see the difference. If I burn a piece of paper with the word G*d I am still desecrating the symbol of God's name.

God is not ___'s name. So it is rather silly. More important than empty gestures of reverence toward the letters of ____'s name would be to live life righteously. Just my two denari.