Anonymous wrote:Ugh, most Buzzfeed thread title on DCUM ever?

You'll Never Believe What Her Mother Said Next!!!!!!

I love Buzzfeed.

Sorry OP. That's a terrible thing to say to anyone and especially cruel to say to your own child. My mom says all sorts of nasty things to me about what she hopes will happen to me - DH will leave, I'll be all alone, my children will "hate me like I hate her." I don't actually hate her although it's hard to have a relationship with her for obvious reasons. Some people are just awful and more so to the ones closest to them. To the PP's who are saying "laugh it off like when a 3 year old says it," that's great if you can do that but hearing something terrible from a parent is vastly different than from a 3 year old where it's developmentally appropriate to say whatever comes into their heads.

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Anonymous wrote:That warrants a call to her minister who can instruct her on how to be a better Christian.

Or her rabbi, or other spiritual leader. What makes you think she has a minister or is Christian?? Get over yourself.

Because Christians are most likely to tell people to burn in hell? People who have rabbis don't talk about hell.

Right, like the expression is only limited to one group. If some used the word putz or mensch you'd assume they were of a specific religious background? Our language used primarily on this forum is a living language which borrows from others. I know plenty of atheist friends (and not raised Christian) who say God bless you and Jesus Christ. I've heard these come out of people from eastern cultures as well.

I'm pretty sure that non-Christians don't generally tell people they will burn in hell. It's not at all the same as words like mensch. It's a curse that is only a curse if you believe in hell in the first place. I'm a non-religious person of Christian heritage, and I'd never say it, or even think it. It's meaningless to me because I don't believe in hell. Though interestingly, "god damn it" is part of my vocabulary. Hm. I think that's because it's more of a word --"godammit" --that has been absorbed into the language like mensch or putz (which, by the way, are not religious terms but just words in Yiddish, so not the best example.)