Posts: 72
Threads: 7
Joined: July 10, 2013
Reputation:
1
God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 4:27 am
What is really implied or intended by believers when they try and speak to atheists or even other religions when they use the word God?
Christians, for example, mostly try and say you're doomed, cursed or evil if you don't accept their God concept.
Christians are also known for telling others not to use words they don't like such as fuck, piss, etc. They call it curse words.
Thing is that this 'God' word they so like to use must be the ultimate curse word, isn't it?
Maybe it's Jesus?
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Posts: 2203
Threads: 44
Joined: July 28, 2012
Reputation:
38
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 9:46 am
I use "god" frequently when annoyed or frustrated. This has sparked much debate between my husband and I as to it's standing as a curse word. I contend that it's not as I don't believe in god, it's just another word to use that has the added benefit of pissing off the religious. He contends it is as I acknowledge a good portion of the public would consider it a curse. We're still undecided on whether using the word "god" is a curse or not, however, he does concede it is better than simply saying "fuck" all the time. Although in conjunction, it's a fine curse, example, "god-fucking, damnit!"
Posts: 2142
Threads: 35
Joined: June 3, 2013
Reputation:
32
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 10:08 am
I read somewhere once a theory that religion is simply a by-product of humans trying to come to grips with the power of language.
Words have power. Curse words are from back when humanity thought they had real, magical power.
And we call the bible the WORD of God. God spoke and everything came to exist.
It's just humanity dealing with how incredible language is.
Not sure if that's true. But it's somewhat interesting.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
Posts: 69248
Threads: 3759
Joined: August 2, 2009
Reputation:
259
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 10:33 am
"Jesus fucking christ on a crutch" usually does wonders for their blood pressure, too.
Posts: 72
Threads: 7
Joined: July 10, 2013
Reputation:
1
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2013 at 11:14 am by Magnum.)
As an atheist I don't believe in magical powers so even if I use the word God or Jesus as an expression of emotion I don't believe something magical happens. On the other hand Christians or Muslims will use the name God, Jesus, Allah or Mohamed with a smile on their faces expressing that so-called love or piety and actually believe that they are fucking you to hell for eternity if you don't succumb to their evangelical enticements.
So for the Christian, God is certainly a curse word with magical powers.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Posts: 4940
Threads: 99
Joined: April 17, 2011
Reputation:
45
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 12:52 pm
I think it's funny that on TV when someone says "god dammit" they'll bleep out "god" but not "dammit." The funny thing is that Christians claim that this is just more Christian persecution since "they" are just trying to remove God from everything but leaving the evil curse word "dammit." When in reality that TV networks know that if they leave in the whole "god dammit" then they'll get swamped by calls from Christians about not censoring people taking the lord's name in vain.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
Posts: 14259
Threads: 48
Joined: March 1, 2009
Reputation:
80
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Any word used incorrectly is a curse word. Funny how there are a lot start with g and j to avoid the blaspheming ones. Those two we're my faves.
Posts: 2142
Threads: 35
Joined: June 3, 2013
Reputation:
32
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 1:30 pm
(July 16, 2013 at 1:17 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Any word used incorrectly is a curse word. Funny how there are a lot start with g and j to avoid the blaspheming ones. Those two we're my faves.
Use the word "funny" as a curse. I'm interested to see this.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
Posts: 7140
Threads: 12
Joined: March 14, 2013
Reputation:
72
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Stop being an annoying little funny or I'll kick the funny right out of your funny funny, funny.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
Posts: 2142
Threads: 35
Joined: June 3, 2013
Reputation:
32
RE: God is a curse word, isn't it?
July 16, 2013 at 1:43 pm
(July 16, 2013 at 1:33 pm)Tonus Wrote: Stop being an annoying little funny or I'll kick the funny right out of your funny funny, funny.
Yeah. Not working too well.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
|
