# Why do people talk about Jesus so much? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173 "2014-06-06T03:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/41 "2014-06-10T23:54:55Z")
Oddly enough, one can attend a devout Anglican service filled with quite total believers, and not hear Jesus’s name once — unless you count the blessing, ‘_In the Name of The Father, The Son & The Holy Ghost_’ etc…l Better not to wear one’s Bleeding Heart on one’s sleeve. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/42 "2014-06-12T11:55:14Z")
I say “Jesus Christ” a lot but that’s just me breaking a commandment. Does that count? Other than that I can’t remember the last time I heard Jesus name dropping outside of a conversation about religion. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/43 "2014-06-12T16:47:51Z")
Two of my employees are “religious”, in that any conversation that addresses anything likely to be about gay people or tragedy brings out the Jesus. This morning we were talking about R. Kelley and his soon to be gender reassigned progeny and out popped Jesus. (Note: I have no idea if this is true; I assume all celebrity stories to be bullshit until proven otherwise). School shooting in Oregon: out popped Jesus. I also want to agree with **astorian** as this is the most frequent problem I run into dating, or rather trying to date. A huge percentage of online dating profiles I run across list Jesus or God as an interest. Another smaller percentage includes hostile language towards non-believers or list non-belief as a deal breaker. We won’t even discuss my Facebook newfeed. All the people mentioned are Black including myself. Religious was in quotations as I know both guys pretty well and neither strike me as regular church goers. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/44 "2014-06-12T16:53:39Z")
I live on the southwest fringe of the Bible Belt, and I hear people talking about Manu Ginobili a lot more (these days) than about Jesus. When people come to my door to talk about Jesus, I don’t let them in. I ride the bus, and I haven’t heard Jesus’ name mentioned in months, maybe years. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/45 "2014-06-12T20:41:38Z")
Hee, this amuses me, as when I moved to CA, one of the biggest culture shocks was hearing the bus-riders discussing their favourite Bible verses. Coming from super-secular Australia, I’d literally never come across it before, and it horrified and offended me. I was riding the 522 along El Camino, a route I’m sure you’re familiar with, OP! ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/46 "2014-06-12T23:56:47Z")
Despite living in heathen Australia, I have a number of colleagues who I would describe as born-again happy clappies (not to them, although a couple do have a decent enough sense of humour that they’d take it well). Fortunately, apart from the odd FB comment, no one would ever know. I’ve actually been surprised to discover that Merilyn or Kathy are serious church goers, since they don’t mention it at all. My workplace, for some reason, appears to attract the born-again crowd and they are over represented compared with the population generally. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/47 "2014-06-13T00:22:25Z")
I’ve blocked a couple of FB glurgers. Still friends but they don’t know I’m ignoring their blather. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2014, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/48 "2014-06-13T08:01:34Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > Its probably a ‘people on the bus’ thing then. I know it doesn’t come up outside of work, and even my religious coworkers don’t bring it up much either. > > I guess it wouldn’t be so irritating if there were at least some balance. What about Allah and Vishnu and Zeus? Didn’t they help you deal with being homeless? Why just settle on Jesus? This is probably the only part of your inquiry I can answer. Because none of the rest of those are part of the main religion of the land. If you take a blind sample of Americans who are outwardly religious, a fairly large majority are going to be Christian. I mean, I meet people who talk like this, but I live in the Bible Belt. And they only talk to me this way because they know I’m a Christian. For them, it’s a matter of being “truly religious,” and “not putting God in box that’s only open on Sunday.” They feel that they have to at least think about God a lot, so they wind up talking about Him. But I understand this is more of a fundamentalist or evangelical type of thing. Maybe homeless people are more likely to be those types of Christians? The other types of Christianity are more complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173/49 "2014-06-15T02:02:26Z")
I know…there was only a book with a passing reference to him. He wasn’t even the main character in it. :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-talk-about-jesus-so-much/690173.md?page=2)