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If the guy is so gracious and forgiving, why would he be upset by me substituting his middle name with slang for "sex"?

- He may be forgiving but that doesn’t mean you ought to disrespect Him. My family is forgiving but I oughtn’t say nasty things about them.

- Forgiveness is open to all and unlimited, but requires repentance, which involves resolution to work to do better.

- It takes lightly what is in and of itself a holy act of creation, treating casually an integral part of God’s design for us, talking as though it’s something foul to cuss with.

Setting aside the truth value of any religious claim — I find ‘Jesus **** Christ’ to be in gratingly poor taste. Imagine going around saying ‘Prophet **** Muhammed’ or even ‘Martin **** Luther King.’ It’s gauche.

> I have also yet to see anyone use the name of Mohammed or Buddha as a substitute.

When I was 12/13 we used to say “cazzo di Buddha” as a form of non/mild blasphemy in a predominantly non-Buddhist country

I mean stuff like "Bud fucking dha" wouldn't exactly roll of the tongue but I get what you generally mean about e.g. Muslims still taking a much more strict view of blasphemy in current times. My understanding of Buddhism (which could be wrong) is it's more that blasphemy isn't an "extreme" type of thing to exclaim in the first place.

It'd be 'Siddhartha fucking Buddha' if we're talking about the Buddha. There are other Buddhas whose moniker you could use (e.g. Amithaba), and Siddhartha Gautama had other monikers (Shakyamuni Buddha), so variations would be possible. As for the stance on blasphemy, I'm not certain but I expect it may differ between sects.

I've witnessed an observant Muslim American using "Jesus!" as an emphatic. It permeates our culture.

Assuming Jesus Christ was real, you'd be seriously underestimating his ability to love people despite using phrases such as "JFC".

I mean, words have power, and it's a bad idea to swear in general. But I doubt Jesus would care.

Guess who actually cares about blasphemy? The Church. :-/

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