I say all the same as usual because I’m not religious. It’s just a cuss word, not a sin, so it’s no skin off my nose to say it. Although ‘FFS’ is my favorite, and ticks off everyone, religious or not.
There we go. I must memorize this, and let people think I am crazy<er> rather than crude; thank you!
Now, how to pronounce it…
I say all the standard swear words. If I didn’t say those words because I’m not religious, then I’d be admitting that they have some sort of supernatural power, wouldn’t I?
You might as well be asking: “People who don’t find copulation and defecation obscene: what do you use instead of ‘fuck’ and ‘shit’?”
Oh, for the love of Og!
“Goddamn motherfucking piece of shit!” flies out of my mouth quite fluidly at times. It’s societal convention, not their literal meaning, that gives any of these words their power as swear words, so it’s no endorsement of religion to me to use them.
I was not always an atheist. I tend to let fly with blasphemy because a) I was raised to believe those are some of the worst things you could possibly say, b) I imagine the shock and horror those words would cause in some of my Sunday school teachers and ministers.
It usually starts with Fuck you up the ass, Jesus cocksucking dogshit Christ you pustulant limpdick son of Mary the Whore of Joseph. I shit in your five wounds, and fuck you in your seven holes with a barb wire dildo! and gets rougher from there.
Agnostic/Methodist here: same as everybody else.
We use the same phrases everyone uses. I hope you don’t think that when people say “Jesus Christ,” they are literally addressing that person. When you say “fuck” or “shit,” are you being that literal?
I use the F word way too much but I’ve been trying so hard not to since my little girl copies everything I say.
Actually, I’d figured there might be people who would feel that by using GODDAMN or Oh my GOD, they were actually endorsing that there is an additional meaning to the words.
In another thread, someone mentioned that they don’t use “Bless You” after a sneeze. I’m actually trying to train myself to say “Gesundheit”, still wanting to convey a sense of “I hope you aren’t getting sick” without implying that I’m calling on God to bless you.
This. Just because I’m not religious doesn’t mean I can’t say the words “god” and “Jesus” and the like. In fact, you’d think it’d be the opposite (the faithful trying to change their swears), seeing as folks who adhere to these religions aren’t technically allowed to take the name of their god in vain. The non-religious have no such restriction.
Though I have added “Christ on a bike!” to my own swear lexicon.
I use “bloody” a lot, which is a religion-based expression, although most Americans don’t realize it.
Another one is “sweet mother of pearl”. That’s mostly an exclamation of surprise and consternation, rather than anger or outrage.
I sort of try to avoid obviously religious swearing because I think many people find it offensive but are not assertive enough to say so.
Roddy
Holy shit!
Snow! (it’s a four-letter word, y’know)
Curse you, Red Baron!
And have been known to take the name of sexual intercourse in vain.
Super, indeed! Well done…
“Oh Void!”
and
“Dust you, you soulless vessel!”
I prefer, “Jesus H Tap Dancing Christ!”
As others have suggested, “Jesus Christ”, “God Damn It” and similar have just become expletives rather than blasphemous invocations of a deity/deities. I am atheist/agnostic (I’ve have never been able to quite decide which is the best term for my own “belief”), and I would think that any atheist/agnostic that had a concern with using such expletives out of a concern that they would appear to be invoking something they don’t believe in would be a little odd.
I do sometimes use those longer expletives, but for the most part I use the usual 4 letter words when I need to “express” myself.
I am an atheist but mainly use religious words when I cuss. “Jesus H Fucking Christ” comes out of my mouth all too often in heavy traffic, for example. Sorry religious folks, it’s my upbringing. I like to think that those words no longer have serious meaning to me but the reality is they make a nice frothy mix with other cuss words. Religious words sprinkled with nasty sex words and maybe a little scat says “I’m seriously cussing now.”
I was raised Christian, devolved into the atheist end of agnosticism, doing the Buddhist thing now. I say “Jesus Fucking Christ” all the time. I’s a product of my raisin’.
My dad, when he gets REALLY mad like when he hits his thumb with a hammer, yells “GOD ALMIGHTY”. When he’s only kinda mad it’s “Dadgummit!” which I think is “Goddamnit” spelled sideways. I have never heard him say an actually dirty word.
ETA - My dad, of course, is a very religious Christian.