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Oh my god.
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I don't think using religious expletives makes atheists hypocritical. A lot of my ready cash has got pictures of Queen Elizabeth II on it, doesn't make me a monarchist.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 (May 7, 2019 at 5:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I say, 'Oh, my god', don't even think about it. I suppose I could change it to, 'By the great, globular, greasy gonads of God!', but who has the time? Who has time? People who swear an oath so important that nothing less than alliteration will do. *Pockets Boru's suggestion -- just in case*  
MPFC joke:
What's brown and sounds like a bell? Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 RE: Oh my god.
May 9, 2019 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2019 at 9:51 am by Smaug.)
I don't care if people say it and I use this phrase myself now and then. The initial connection to religion is so eroded that it doesn't matter much anymore. I also generally don't care if a person is a Christian or a Muslim or whatever unless they take their faith too far and too seriously. I've met people who were not religious but very superstitious and it's as irritating as dealing with an overzealous religious person. It is generally very irritating when someone pushes their irrational beliefs when dealing with serious matters.
Yeah I still say "Oh my god" and "Jesus" when surprised. It's just a figure of speech to me. I left the religion, but my vocabulary remained more or less the same.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  (May 7, 2019 at 4:47 pm)Shell B Wrote: I say all the god sayings with no feelings about it whatsoever. It doesn't matter. This all day. I still say "bless you" when someone sneezes and I say "oh my god" to express disbelief or annoyance with something. None of it means anything to me. I also use to wear a crucifix that my grandfather bought me when I was younger. One girl I talked to was horrified when I said I was an atheist but still wore a gold chain with a cross on it... as if it holds some divine significance because the gold was molded into a specific shape 
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
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