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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see it as taking the Lord's name in vain.

What if someone said "Oh, my God is an awesome God!"

"My God will lead a crusade against your fatwa."  (Well, maybe not.)[/quote]

Surely you see the difference between "Oh my God!"  as an exclamation or figure of speech and "Oh, my God..." as the beginning of a sentence about your God.

As with everything, different people have different religious traditions. Just as many Jewish people might write G-d instead of spell it out correctly, some Christians think "Oh my God" or "Jesus Christ!" is sacrilegious. I do. There are a lot of things my children aren't allowed to say that their friends say, this is just one of them. Not a big deal to some, and not a big deal to us either, really. We just don't do it.[/quote]

Just don't do it.  People do get wrapped up in this, especially if you are at a religious school.  It's just not good form.  Evangelicals, Anglicans, Epis., Jews, and CAtholics can get very offended by this.  I was even called out in a law firm setting for saying something like that.  Just train yourself to say something else like "[b]Sweet Fancy Moses[/b]".
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!  This is hilarious. Please tell me you don't really say this in 2014.[/quote]

This would fall in the same category, imho, as "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph."  People say things like this when they want to funny.  Didn't you see "Anchorman"?  Do you remember all the hilarious exclamations that the Ron Burgundy makes?  I don't know why this common concept seems to be hard for DCUM'ers here to understand. :)  Some of his funnier ones were:

1)  Great Odin's Raven!
2)  By the beard of Zeus!
3)  Knights of Columbus, that hurts!

:)  You could add to this list, now:

4)  Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
and
5)  Sweet fancy Moses!

They're just darned funny things to say![/quote]

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