# Jonathon Chance, you struck out on this one. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 12, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551 "2016-12-12T20:33:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551/61 "2016-12-19T18:35:26Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A “slang term” implies that someone besides yourself uses it. Google shows no hits for such a usage. I use it to put a halt to religionists who claim when you say “God!” or “God damn it!” or “godforsaken”, “If some small part of you didn’t believe in GOD, you wouldn’t keep using his name!” or something else along that line. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551/62 "2016-12-19T19:32:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A “slang term” implies that someone besides yourself uses it. Google shows no hits for such a usage. That’s how I use it, and I’ve heard others use it as well. The urban dictionary implies it as well. It’s god with a sigh. > **[Urban Dictionary: ghod](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghod)** > > an exasperated version of 'God', used in place of a \*sigh\* ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551/63 "2016-12-19T19:33:19Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > That’s how I use it, and I’ve heard others use it as well. The urban dictionary implies it as well. It’s god with a sigh. > > [Urban Dictionary: ghod](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghod) So then it’s use would appear to be a form of trolling? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551/64 "2016-12-19T19:35:42Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > So then it’s use would appear to be a form of trolling? Only if you consider anything short of reverence when referring to deities as “trolling”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551/65 "2016-12-20T22:15:19Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Is “ghods” a typo or a) ostentatiously/religiously highlighting your disrespect to all those people who write/say “God,” or b) ostentatiously/religiously highlighting your respect like the Jews who write “G-d” and the censors who write “G-ddammnit?” It’s a means for insecure (or militant I suppose) atheists to ensure that everyone knows that they are insecure (or militant I suppose) atheists despite it being irrelevant to everyone but them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551/66 "2016-12-20T22:21:02Z")
> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#): > > It’s a means for insecure (or militant I suppose) atheists to ensure that everyone knows that they are insecure (or militant I suppose) atheists despite it being irrelevant to everyone but them. Beware! Those “militant” atheists are brandishing words again! ---
**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551/67 "2016-12-20T23:57:11Z")
You do realize that the word [militant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant)doesn’t necessarily mean armed right? “The English word militant is both an adjective and a noun, and is usually used to mean vigorously active, combative and aggressive, especially in support of a cause, as in ‘militant reformers’.” Either way, I’m not going to hijack the thread to argue semantics with you. Ghod be with you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jonathon-chance-you-struck-out-on-this-one/774551.md?page=3)