I disagree. Looks like a limited tradition. Not at all to "Abrahamic God".
It can be, but Muslims don't all agree on whether it should be used. Some find offencive and/or unnecessary. Personally I find the abbreviation insufficient if the writer wants to write it at all. It seems they not only think it necessary and respectful but are then too lazy to write the whole of it.
Never seen this in real life or even heard of it. Except maybe in old movies. Making the cross at least for catholics is a prayer and/or part if it.
Thank you, all are good points.
Regarding a Catholic person crossing themselves while praying:
A Catholic person crosses themselves while in prayer because the act is potentially holy?
The practice of abbreviating G-d by Jewish people is because the act of writing is also potentially holy.
Granted, Not all Jewish people have that in mind when they are doing it. And granted some people who do it may get puffed up with self-importance when they do it. But the idea behind the practice comes from a good place.
The Jewish practice of abbreviating G-d demonstrates that in Judaism there is a level of holiness in the act of writing. Abbreviating G-d is proper and Judaism encourages the practice for all sorts of Jewish people: all genders, young people, old people, all professions, all levels of education. ( an uneducated person would not know how to write at all ).
This supports the idea that in Judaism almost all the actions a Jewish person needs to do during the day can be potentially a holy act. Almost all. And no Jewish person is left out from this.
