"It is very sad that any scientists have an [opposite] opinion.
I think this is unacceptable."Father Alvin Tkhelidze, a priest and prominent spiritual blogger, said that conventional Russian usage requires a capital letter even in idiomatic phrases.“For Christians, saying “thank God” is not a learned phrase, but an act of worshiping the Creator” “ He wrote on the telegram. On Saturday, the archivist Vladimir Vigiljanski, the rector of St. Tatiana's church at Moscow University, besides criticized the recommendation.
He insisted that the word “God’ was written in capital letters even in common terms, adding that the usage of tiny letters is only appropriate for pagan gods.Some Russian writers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, utilized a letter in their literary works.Anastasia Solomonova, dean of the Philology Department at the Pushkin State Institute of Russian Language, noted that the usage of tiny letters had become more common after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 — not only due to atheistic propaganda, but due to the fact that the russian authorities no longer recognized the Christian God as the highest authority.In 2022, the Russian Ministry of Education issued guidelines recommending capitalisation of terms specified as “God”, “Lord”, “The Holy Trinity”, “The Holy Spirit”, “The Creator”, “The Church” and “The Providence” in a spiritual context.
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source:https://www.rt.com/russia/620731-god-small-g-sinful-church/
