Exodus 20:7. Where are the religious experts on this forum when you need em? :o)



>>As an example of how religion tries (and manages) to insert itself into all pores of the civilization it inhabits, I've tried to find an alternative to the common exclamation of surprise. In English, that is "ohmygod", or "OMG" online.
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>>Can't find any. I actually can't remember if I ever heard any other outcry. May be a shortcoming of my memory, or there actually isn't any ("oh my goodness" doesn't count as different).
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>>Even in my own language, where there actually are multiple possible expressions of surprise, more than half of them are religion... related. The mildest one would be "god spread you" (as butter or jam), often abbreviated to just "bokte" (godyou).
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>>Does anyone know at least one such expression which isn't hijacked by religion?
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>This is bothersome to religious people, as well. Just imagine something considered somehow to be special (i.e., holy), mis-used as an exclamation.
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>On the other hand, there are lots of exclamations that are related either to waste products of the human body ("Oh, sh..."), or somehow sexually oriented ("f... it"). Not that I recommend them over the religious exclamations <g>.
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>That reminds me of a joke I read, about a class that had to write a short story that included elements of sex, religion, and mystery. One of the girls wrote one that was really short: "Oh my God, I am pregnant. I wonder who the father is!"