I always thought that god isn’t his name, that god’s name was Yahweh or something, so what’s the problem with omg
I used to work next to a very religious woman who objected if I said “Jesus Christ!” or “O My God!” as an expletive. She asked me very nicely to please not take the Lord’s name in vain as it upset her to hear it. Then she added, “I don’t care if you say ‘fuck,’ though.” However, I had already trained myself not to use vulgarities in front of my then very young children as I did not want them repeating such things to their nursery school teachers or grandparents. So I was left with such exclamations as “Jimminy Cricket!” and “Oh, fudge,” which resulted in much mocking from the young guys in my actual work group.
Nit: Columbia is the capital of the United States. Colombia is a country in South America.
I see what you did there.
Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle!
Do you understand? Even—and I want to make this absolutely clear—even if they do say “Jehovah.”
I, personally, don’t invoke God’s name unless I really, truly mean to call upon God. I also teach my kids not to do it (if they choose to follow the theist path, which is their choice). My 9YO will say “Oh my gosh!” or “Oh my goodness!” or even “omg!” which are all fine. I will say the same things. I also will say “fuck!” or “fuck it!” or some such. But as a theist, I find it wrong to invoke the name without meaning it.
OTOH, I would never presume to correct someone else on this behavior (unless it’s a child, visiting my child, in which case I might say something like “We don’t say that in this house”). Other than that, what grown-ups choose to say is entirely up to them, and I leave it at that. I have a right to my own beliefs, but I would not presume to force them on you.
Heh, I’m areligious myself, but I’d be tempted to respond to objections to using “Oh my god” with “I wasn’t talking about your god, I was talking about [insert name of other god here].” It’s awfully presumptuous of some people to assume that the god you’re referring to is the same one they worship…
Nit’: The Distrcit of Columbia is the capital of the United States. Columbia is the capital of South Carolina.
This would cause me to :rolleyes: until I passed out, and after I woke up I’d probably forget this podcast even existed.
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Nit: . . . OK I just can’t bring myself to do it. Never mind. 
My Fundie friend’s 6 year old corrected me a few years ago.
I had a habit of saying “O m’go-o-o-d!” with a humorous Valley Girl inflective and was scolded by a 6 year old. <sigh> I never considered it “taking the lord’s name in vain” fercryinoutloud.
Since then I’ve made it a point to insert a “gosh” or “goodness” so as not to offend the sensitive. :rolleyes:
Probably. I say “Jesus” just to clinch it. I can really get satisfaction out of those two syllables, and I’m kind of a dick.
My mother was never a church-going woman, but one thing she instilled in my is “thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain”. Now, even having given up my religion, I still cringe when I hear someone do so.
Having said that, “Oh my god” would bother me much less than “God dammit”.
But when I say “Oh my God,” I’m talking about a norse god. Why would anyone be offended about that?
We say “Lordy” a lot down here. As in: “Lordy, Lordy, Lordy! Is it frickin’ hotter 'n Heck today or what???”
Did you notice I capitalized the L (just did it again, GoshDarn it!) in “Lordy”? Am I bound by the Laws (“Laws, Laws! It sho be hot today!”) of Holy Grammar to do that every time?
It also Got me to thinking if Lordy might have been Jesus’ nickname when he was a Kid?
One could, I suppose, spell that with an ie instead of a y so as to make it cuter.
Knock, Knock, Knock
“Mr. and Mrs. Christ? Can Lordie come out and play with us?”
And when you think about it, are we being “modern” or just a little bit presumptuous when we call Him that?
“Yo’ Lordy! Gimme Five, Bro’!”?
I re-worked that to make it fit here, but **that ** little piece got me suspended from a Georgia radio station back in the mid 70’s.
So to answer the OP, I guess it is.
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One of my uncles chastised one of my cousins for saying, “Oh, god!” when our grandmother died, so yeah, I’d say it’s offensive to some people.