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Religious Themed Cuss Words
Neon Genesis:
Why do people love using religious themed cuss words so much? If the person cussing is a Christian, don't they think that would be insulting to Jesus to say goddamnit or Jesus effing Christ? I never understood how the Christian kids in my high school will use all manner of swear words even if they made no sense at all and were rather silly sounding yet would rail about how evil and gross gays were. But if you're an atheist, why use religious themed cuss words? Is it to be offensive to religious people?
Skeptress:
For me it's just habit.
Neon Genesis:
Why is it we don't say "fucking Muhammed" instead of "Jesus fucking Christ" or "Allahdamn you!" Do other cultures have similar types of blasphemous swear words or is this just an American thing?
arthwollipot:
I think it's because the whole idea of expressing profanity comes from blasphemy. It's only more recent that we've had non-blasphemous swear words, and some of that is in order to swear without blaspheming (gosh darn). Non-blasphemous words like shit and fuck did not originate as profanity, and were commonly used.
Also, the idea of swearing appears to come from swearing an oath, which was often done by invoking God and so has a religious basis.
Shibboleth:
The worst swear words in the English language that I can think of are cunt and nigger.
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