god<br /><br />...is a male deity. I often wonder how gender-based references
come to be lost in translation (e.g. god, goddess). But then too there is
"God" with a capital "G" that seems to enter into the
picture as well (via entextualization). <br /><br />The framers of the US
constitution were deists which posed a Christian theological interpretation
that god with a captial "G" is the creator of the universe, though
not a sovereign. I suspect that this was purely an American thing. <br /><br
/>just a few more thoughts...<br />Phil<br />