Capital
(or upper-case) letters
are important in
English,
and
there are many
situations when you
should use
them.
To add to the situations
presented previously,
here
are five more very common uses
for capital
letters:
1.
Capitalize the first letter
of the names
of deities (supreme
beings).
Examples:
God / Allah / Yahweh / Elohim Vishnu / Zeus / Minerva / Quetzalcóatl
/ Moloch / Marduk
/ Ptah / Isis / Bacchus / Mithra
2.
Capitalize the first letter
of the
names of religionsand
religious groups.
Examples:
Buddhism / Hinduism / Islam
/ Christianity / Judaism /
Taoism / Zoroastrianism
/ Shinto / Sikhism / the Roman Catholic Church / the Amish
/ the Ismaili Muslims /
Shiites / the Tian Tai
Sect / Theravada Buddhism
3.
Capitalize the first letter
of names
of holy people and
religious
leaders.
Examples:
Bahaullah / Lao-Tzu / St.
Francis of Assisi
the Archbishop of Canterbury
/ the Dalai Lama
/ the Pope
4.
Capitalize the first letter
of the names
of religious scriptures (holy books).
Examples:
the Torah / the Zend-Avesta
/ the Bible / the Koran / the Tao-Te-Ching / the Book of Mormon / the Upanishads
5.
Capit
alize the first letter
of the names of religious holy days.
