Conservatism to me means to conserve this world instead of destroying G-D’s creation and to uphold the principles of justice, meaning fair and speedy trials with due process and the assumption of innocence until proven guilty. It means to call out and confront injustice when we see it without moral selectivism; to work together as a unified country towards a common good. It means to go out and help your fellow man get back onto his feet when he is in need. That and religious values. Regardless, we all live in this universe and destroying it with pollutants, destroying ecosystems, smashing justice as if it means nothing at all, and being morally selectice against bad is intolerable. We already have caused unfathomable damage through deforestation, throwing mercury in the water that poisons the fish, and hunting entire species to extinction en masse. I am just one type of conservative though… there are many other types! I will list them later.
Now tell me, what do you think conservatism is? Let me know down below! Good faith answers only.
I am a Jew. Not a Christian. The reason we say ‘G-D’ instead of ‘God’ is because outside of davening (praying) or teaching, we not allowed to say His name. This has been taught since before the rabbonim during the original Twelve Tribes. We say that the intention behind speaking matters more than the word itself. If you intend to curse by saying ‘Frick’, ‘Dang’, ‘Crud’, etc, it is still considered cursing. Likewise, if you intend to say ‘God’ when referring to His name, it is still considered saying His name.
For Jews, it’s totally different. Not directed at you personally, because I’m sure you already know this. 😉
God’s name is unknowable and unpronounceable which is why the Bible displays it as the tetragrammaton, based on how you maybe, kinda, might have said it.
But regardless, God isn’t the name, the tetragrammaton is, which is why Jews avoid saying it out loud in favor of substitutes like “Adonai”.
https://reformjudaism.org/learning/answers-jewish-questions/why-do-some-jews-write-g-d-instead-god
“The bulk of Jewish legal opinion agrees that the law applies only to the written name of God when written in Hebrew and not when written in other languages.”
Using one specific sect does not really negate what I said. Yeah. Reform Judaism is ~10% of worldwide Jewry, Conservative Judaism (not conservative, more reformist, just the name) is ~8% of worldwide Jewry, ~2% adheres to Other sects of Judaism, secular Jews and cultural Jews without a particular sect are ~40% of worldwide Jewry, and Orthodox Judaism is ~40% of worldwide Jewry. When talking about religious authority, I would generally go with the largest sect as it represents religious Jews the best, not other sects that makes up ~20% of worldwide religious Jewry combined. Do note that these are averages and percentages varies based on the polling method. Regardless, it is disingeneous to list a source from a sect that only has 1/10 of all Jews worldwide over the largest sect with 3/10-4/10 of all Jews worldwide.
Edited because I got a percentage inaccurate that I had to fix for accuracy purposes.