I'm a passing visitor to mi yodeya so please excuse me if I'm being ignorant here, but I noticed that a few of the words referring to deity are not completed and simply 'dashed' out (I'm not stating them in whole in case for some reason it's due to respect).
Converts to be treated as if they were born Jewish
This is the question that I saw, but there are multiple others (it appears to be all of them). Can some explain the reasoning behind this?
Welcome to Mi Yodeya. Different people handle this in different ways; some people don't mind writing a translation of a divine name in full, and others are careful to avoid doing so. Each participant is free to follow his own practice; as with transliteration conventions or matters of style, we let all the variations stand and don't try to edit them.
The practice has its roots in the extreme care we take in treating divine names in Hebrew. We don't write them frivolously and we take extra care in disposing of papers containing them. (And even if we're writing online, we don't want to be the cause of somebody else printing it out and then not treating that paper appropriately.) For more about this, see this question on the main site.
