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> Still it's an odd choice for the English language whose primary users are monotheist.

What's it got to do with monotheism? Anyway, the word predates monotheism.

There's this "capitalization is a matter of respect" concept that people are pushing lately and it's not how it works. It started with Reddit-style people before there was a Reddit, and they're like "I'm not gonna capitalize 'god' because there is no god" and then people push back against that. Some dude on Poast yelled at me for not capitalizing "white" lately. (I'm not going to fuck up my native language just because some filthy kraut on the Internet wants to bastardize centuries-old grammar for the sake of some passing bullshit.)

You look at old use of capitalization and it's even more consistent about that. So since "reasoning" is a class of activity but "reason" is a definite thing, older text used to capitalize "Reason", you'll see that in the Declaration of Independence. So "Take it in. This is God." would involve capitalizing the word, but "How can you kill a god?" would not. "Is there a god?" could go either way and the meaning could vary pretty widely based on whether you capitalize the word or not.

I think one of the canonical examples of this is "mom and dad". "Say hello to your mom" versus "Did you talk to Mom?" You're using one as a class, you're using the other as a name of a definite thing. None of this applies outside English, though, where, like, in Spanish you'd not capitalize "Spanish", but we do because there is a definite thing that is called "Spanish", the Spanish language, a single named entity. I don't know why we capitalize it when talking about Spanish people or Spanish rice, maybe it's for uniformity.
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