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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL does this too.  She says things like "Oh my Lord" all the time too.  She is Catholic and apparently they think it is just fine.  Whatever.  I just ignore it and tell my kids not to say it.  I don't correct her and correct my kids if they correct her; I tell that it is disrespectful to correct their grandparents even if they do something that kids aren't allowed to do.

Kids have to learn boundaries and one of them is that you can't do everything everyone else does.  Even Grandma.[/quote]

I don't think "oh my Lord" is blasphemy.[/quote]

Well I do.  She says "Oh my God" and "Jesus Christ" too.  all for the same exclamation kinds of things.  It's annoying and I consider it inappropriate for a kid to say.[/quote]

FWIW, historically, saying, "Jesus Christ!" or "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" in times of frustration and sorrow is considered a prayer, not blasphemy at all.  In fact, in times when prayers were assigned specific values for indulgences from time in Purgatory, you'd actually get days of indulgences for every time you uttered them.  I have an entire chapter of a prayer book listing "Indulgenced Ejaculations", and I believe "Jesus Christ!" is assigned 2 days off.  I am not kidding.  This may be something your MIL is completely unaware of, as it was fairly common knowledge among Catholics a few generations ago, not one generation back.  My book is from the 1930's.

I urge you to consider whether your God is really strong enough to take the "insult" here, when none whatsoever is intended, and in fact, the cultural etymology of the utterance is reaching out to God for support and help during times of surprise or difficulty.

also, unclench.[/quote]

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