I guess you learn a little every day.<\/p>\n
Saying ‘god damn<\/em><\/strong>‘ is, apparently, about as extreme an expletive as it is possible to use when in the company of a christian. As I recently upset someone by defending a friend that used the expression I learned a lot in a short space of time.<\/p>\n So I guess that it is time to temper my language somewhat and have therefore decided that rather than \u00c2\u00a0yelling ‘god damn<\/em><\/strong>‘, I will replace the phrase with something less offensive.<\/p>\n Doing a little research turned up the following list of potential replacements…..<\/p>\n Begorrah –> By God Now to me, they all seem a tad silly, obviously ‘everyone’ knows the actual meaning of each one, so why disguise the word ?<\/p>\n Fear of a name seems irrational to me. As J.K. Rowling put it<\/p>\n ‘Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.’ <\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n So are we scared of saying God,\u00c2\u00a0Jesus,\u00c2\u00a0Allah,\u00c2\u00a0Zeus\u00c2\u00a0etc ? Simply because we are scared of our (your)\u00c2\u00a0imaginary\u00c2\u00a0friends ?<\/p>\n If ‘taking the lords name in vein’ is so wrong, why does the single most religious person I know use the phrase ‘Oh my god<\/em>‘ on such a regular basis ? Surely the ten commandments mention something like that ?<\/p>\n 3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.<\/em><\/p>\n So if the third<\/em> most important commandment is to not use ‘the name’ in vein, yet\u00c2\u00a0Christians\u00c2\u00a0use it ‘all the time’, why can I not use it ?<\/p>\n I see no real difference at all in saying ‘Gosh darned’ and \u00c2\u00a0‘God damned’. They mean exactly the same, only one is politically correct and well, that is something I struggle with. So I need a phrase that is short, sweet and nice and easy to express a respectful level of annoyance.<\/p>\n I figure that the easiest thing is to fall back on the British phrases that my American friends do not understand……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saying ‘god damn’ is, apparently, about as extreme an expletive as it is possible to use when in the company of a ‘born again’ christian. As I recently upset someone by defending a friend that used the expression I learned a lot in a short space of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[61,48,57],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-religion","tag-cultural","tag-odd","tag-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBejabbers –> By Jesus
\nBy George –> By God
\nBy golly –> By God’s body
\nBy gosh –> By God
\nBy gum –> By God
\nBy Jove –> By God
\nChrissakes –> For Christ’s sake
\nCor blimey –> God blind me
\nCrikey –> Christ
\nCriminy –> Christ
\nCripes –> Christ
\nCrivvens –> Christ defend us
\nDad gum –> God damn
\nDagnabbit –> God damn it
\nDagnammit –> God damn it
\nDang –> Damn
\nDangnabbit –> God damn it
\nDangnation –> Damnation
\nDarn –> Damn
\nDarnation –> Damnation
\nDoggone –> God damn
\nDrat –> God rot it
\nEgad –> A God
\nFor crying out loud –> For Christ’s sake
\nFor Pete’s sake –> For St. Peter’s sake
\nFor the love of Mike –> For St. Michael’s sake
\nGadzooks –> God’s hooks
\nGat Dangit –> God damn it
\nGee –> Jesus
\nGee whizz –> Jesus
\nGee willikers –> Jesus
\nGodfrey Daniel –> God
\nGolly Gee willikers –> Jesus
\nGood garden party –> Good God
\nGood grief –> Good God
\nGoodness gracious –> Good God
\nGorblimey –> God blind me
\nGosh –> God
\nGosh darned –> God damned
\nHeck –> Hell
\nHoly spit –> Holy shit
\nJason Crisp –> Jesus Christ
\nJebus –> Jesus
\nJeepers Creepers –> Jesus Christ
\nJeez –> Jesus
\nJeezy Creezy –> Jesus Christ
\nJehosaphat –> Jesus
\nJiminy Christmas –> Jesus Christ
\nJiminy Cricket –> Jesus Christ
\nJudas Priest –> Jesus Christ
\nLawks a mercy –> Lord have mercy
\nMy goodness –> My God
\nMy gosh –> My God
\nOdds-bodkins –> God’s sweet body
\nSacr\u00c3\u00a9 bleu –> Sang de Dieu (God’s blood)
\nStrewth –> God’s Truth
\nSuffering succotash –> Suffering Saviour
\nTarnation –> Damnation
\nWish to goodness –> Wish to God
\nZounds –> God’s wounds<\/p>\n