Am I supposed to capitalize the H in he when talking about Jesus?

Yes. According to the Catholic King James version.
And print all of Jesus’ words in red.
Or else.

I do not capitalize the H when referring to anyone. So shoot me.

It depends on whether or not you believe in imaginary super beings, however, it’s an imperative in Jesus H Christ.

Only if you are a believer in Christianity.

Agnostics might contend that it’s impossible to know what to believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverential_capitalization

Is it for a work of fiction?

@janbb So, atheists don’t capitalize God? There isn’t a rule in the English language to follow, its subjective to the writer?

The answer to your question is yes. It’s just being respectful to others who are true believers.

I think that a lot of the events written in the King James Holy Bible very likely never happed and 99% the events written in the Book of Mormon absolutely never happened. I have no religious preference because there are so many religions and they all can’t be right.

I just go along to get along.

@JLeslie There isn’t a rule that I know of. Personally, I’m an atheist but I would capitalize God and usually use the Jewish form G-d out of tradition but since I don’t believe in the godliness of Jesus, I wouldn’t capitalize the pronouns.

The H is taken from Jesus H. Christ. H stood for his middle name (Hellboy). People shortened it.

With exception of ‘I’, or as the first word in a sentence, pronouns are not capitalized in the English language. Therefore, no.

Anything else is just making a specific group of people feel good about their religious beliefs, which is not the job of the English language or any language for that matter.

Yeah we dont use H, as Christians.

I just use a capitalised F.

@KNOWITALL You don’t use “He”, “Him”, etc. when talking about Jesus? Or are you referring to the Jesus H. Christ comment?

No, generally not. That seems to be reserved for God the Father from what I’ve observed. Sometimes it’s done purely to avoid ambiguity. But ultimately it’s a stylistic choice. Many Biblical translations do not capitalize the h.

So, he is risen, not He is risen? ;-)

@cupcake
It depends on the person but many do capitalize He. No hard and fast rule, just more respectful.

I capitalize any deity like Allah or Shiva though.

I think so when Jesus is the he you are referring to.

@KNOWITALL Yes, but those are proper nouns which should always be capitalized. Pronouns are different.

If you are referring to Christ as deity, yes, you capitalize. But if you are referring to him in the regular secular sense, treat it as any pronoun.

Christians are not offended either way,

In Catholic school we were taught to always capitalize the pronouns (and nouns) that refer to any of the three Persons of the Trinity, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Does the Holy Spirit have a gender, or do we use the pronoun It?

According to Catholic Doctrine, the Holy Spirit is masculine

Thanks. I did a Web search and found that there is some contention among different groups as to the appropriate gender of the Holy Spirit, but there seems to be general agreement that one gender or the other is appropriate.

Disclaimer: Not a theologian, although I played one for a few years a long time ago in a galaxy far away…

Traditional Trinitarian beliefs, follow the Nicene Council, which states:

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.

The logical step from that, IMHO, is that in a patriarchal doctrine, the Creator-God is masculine, therefore all three Persons of the Trinity are masculine.

Personally, I think the Creator-God must be all-inclusive gender neutral. The gender of each of the Three Persons can be determined be Their function:

“God the Father”
Definitely the Divine Masculine.i
Creator = Masculine and Feminine. I’ve heard prayers addressed to “Father-Mother God”.

“God the Son” (or maybe “God the Only-Begotten”) aka Logos (Greek) or Verbum (Latin)

The first line of the Gospel of John:

Greek transliteration: En arkhêi ên ho lógos, kaì ho lógos ên pròs tòn theón, kaì theòs ên ho lógos
Latin: In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum.

English: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.

If we’re looking for gender clues here, good luck. The Greek Logos is masculine; the Latin, Verbum is neuter, as is the English Word.

It’s probably easier to refer to This Person’s gender as the Incarnation of Jesus.

“God the Holy Spirit”
This Person of the Godhead is the one that most clearly intervenes in human life. This is the Inspiration, the Communicator, the Sofia to the Logos. This is the Love generated by the other two Persons. Definitely the Divine Feminine.

Christians also believe that we are ‘born’ of the Holy Spirit, into God’s family—the Spirit who guides and nurtures. These are also feminine attributes. The word for Holy Spirit in Hebrew, Rauach (sp?) is a Feminine term.

The Holy Spirit is one of the three persons of the triune Godhead, but it is entirely appropriate to refer to the Holy Spirit as ‘she’—though you can almost never get away with it.

@Yellowdog …though you can almost never get away with it.

I’ve often thought it interesting that the gender-neutral pronoun in the English language, It, also has an inferior connotation. This is something we as a society are dealing with when it comes to individuals who consider their gender to be non-binary.

Pretty sure “Jesus H Christ” is meant to be an epithet, like “Christ on a stick!”....