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Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 7, 2018 at 9:38 pm
There's only one phrase which I really hate...

"Not tonight dear, I have a headache."
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 7, 2018 at 9:42 pm
(January 7, 2018 at 9:14 am)Longhorn Wrote: There is only one word that truly disgusts me. And it’s ‘broken’, when used to describe people. Religious context or not, never fails to get my blood boiling in a second.

I say that about myself a lot.
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 8, 2018 at 12:08 am
You pick and choose words as you would Bible verses. Love, grace, faith, belief, kindness, caring, help and ect are Christian words, why didn't you choose them, too.

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God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 8, 2018 at 12:13 am
(January 8, 2018 at 12:08 am)Godscreated Wrote: You pick and choose words as you would Bible verses. Love, grace, faith, belief, kindness, caring, help and ect are Christian words, why didn't you choose them, too.

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Because theyre not exclusively Christian words. Youre the tool of tools, arent you?
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 8, 2018 at 12:27 am
(January 7, 2018 at 5:56 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: Words associated with Chrisitianity (for example God, Jesus, Church, cross), Islam (Allah, Coran, Mohammed, mosque) and with Judaism (synagogue, Moses, Noah's ark) make me feel disgusted. Everytime I hear, spell or think about them it literally makes me sick to my stomach, luckily never to the point of throwing up.
Words from Non-abrahamic religions disgust me less, but I still dislike many of them. 
This will make the moment when I'll come out as atheist to my family hard, because I'll have to hear and spell these words. My family members will try to convince me to return to the faith, so they'll use these words and I'll have to explain them why I don't want to return, so I'll have to use these words.
Could I use the fact that I'm disgusted by religious words as an argument when I'll come out of the closet?
Does anyone feel the same regarding religious words?


Honestly, not at all.  In fact I like finding non-religious correlates for them.  Some I find easy and somewhat useful include: soul; faith; heaven; hell; and redemption.  I have no use for and can attach no meaning to "sin" or "afterlife" or "savior".
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 8, 2018 at 12:28 am
Yes, In fact almost everytime before I hear 'bless you' I sneeze, I assume to mean I am allergic and psychic.
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 8, 2018 at 8:15 am
(January 8, 2018 at 12:08 am)Godscreated Wrote: You pick and choose words as you would Bible verses. Love, grace, faith, belief, kindness, caring, help and ect are Christian words, why didn't you choose them, too.

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I don't like the "belief" word, I do like the others. But those words weren't invented by Christianity. Words that expressed love and kindness existed before Chrisitianity. And the fact that Christianity uses these words doesn't mean it's moral.
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 8, 2018 at 8:27 am
(January 7, 2018 at 7:38 am)Antares Wrote: "Have a blessed day" really wilts my noodle.

Haha I hear that everywhere I go. These southern people lerv to bless your day.
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 8, 2018 at 9:12 am
I say oh my god, god save us, bless us all, and many hindu sayings way too many times. Never bothered me. When someone tells me to stop because it's blasphemous, though, I swear to god (there we go again), they do not hear the end of it from me.
The word bed actually looks like a bed. 
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RE: Does anyone else feel disgusted by religious words?
January 9, 2018 at 2:03 am (This post was last modified: January 9, 2018 at 2:35 am by Godscreated.)
(January 8, 2018 at 8:15 am)Die Atheistin Wrote:
(January 8, 2018 at 12:08 am)Godscreated Wrote: You pick and choose words as you would Bible verses. Love, grace, faith, belief, kindness, caring, help and ect are Christian words, why didn't you choose them, too.

GC

I don't like the "belief" word, I do like the others. But those words weren't invented by Christianity. Words that expressed love and kindness existed before Chrisitianity. And the fact that Christianity uses these words doesn't mean it's moral.

 So love and kindness and all the other things I mention are not moral, glad I do not live in your world. Guess what little one the word belief was used long before Christianity and you practice belief every day of your life, the next time you sit in a chair remember this.

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(January 8, 2018 at 8:27 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(January 7, 2018 at 7:38 am)Antares Wrote: "Have a blessed day" really wilts my noodle.

Haha I hear that everywhere I go. These southern people lerv to bless your day.

Because we luvs everyun'.

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(January 8, 2018 at 12:13 am)Grandizer Wrote:
(January 8, 2018 at 12:08 am)Godscreated Wrote: You pick and choose words as you would Bible verses. Love, grace, faith, belief, kindness, caring, help and ect are Christian words, why didn't you choose them, too.

GC

Because theyre not exclusively Christian words. Youre the tool of tools, arent you?

 Neither is belief, you live with it every day of your life and if you do not recognize this then who is the real tool.

GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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