Swearing for Atheists
The other day, I gave myself a minor injury and almost said 'God Dammit!' I just said 'Dammit' finally.
Yes we have "fuck" and "shit" and all the rest of the bodily functional swearing but many people, mostly not very religious use, "Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ on a Crutch! Jesus H. Christ! (I don't know where the H comes from), God Damn It! Dammit! Hell etc.
I don't want to go back to "Gosh Darn it to Heck" like I used when I had small children. Or Fudgebunnies, Or Coprolite, or Drat. Okay I do use 'Drat' rather a lot. It seems like a secular swear. I also say "poot' which is a bit twee of me, but there you go.
Suggestions of secular swearing outside of the cute or insane would be appreicated.
Any thoughts of why nominally Christian people or for that matter quite Christian people swear by taking the Lord's name in vain would be fun and informative to read.
Thank you all in advance.
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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on -
Does the pope shit in the woods ?
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Permalink Reply by John Frazer on -
In an old S.F. novel (maybe Piper or Heinlein), a character was described as going off on a cursing streak for a while, but not using scatology, religion/blasphemy, or sexual prctices/deviances or hereditary terms...
I've always wished I had taken time to work such a thing out. You could cuss up a blue streak in public, and nobody could say anything!
I do try to avoid such things.
Anatomy sometimes comes into it, and I'll use the usual things from a different region/dialect ("bollocks" or "bugger-all" come to mind) Australian is fun too -rugged for most yanks!
I'll try to remember "coprolite!" for scatological refs from now on.
I confess to watching Farscape, and resort to it a lot. Even though it's mostly nonsense replacements of the more common vulgarities. ("SON OF A HAZMOT!" or "frell me...") It's fun using it sometimes because of the bewildered looks of those who don't know it, and the in-joke amusement of those very few who do.
I was disappointed twith the new imagining of Batttlestar Galactica for limiting their odd words to the now-ubiquitous "Frack" and derivitives of it. I don't use it because they overused it so much. There was so much more in the original series, including time and distance measurements.
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