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Davefromthefreeway Posted 19 years ago
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profanity

0 Is "oh, good God" considered profanity? It is considered a swear word...0-
  

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0 it depends. for religous people, yes. 0-
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00Well, for some religious people.02br
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0"Oh, good grief!" is an inoffensive alternative.0-
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0 Technically it would be blasphemy - "taking the Lord's name in vain". Probably more offensive in America than in England, where truly religious Christians are very much a minority group. 0-
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00I'm not so sure I'd say categorically that this is always blasphemy, if you define blasphemy as something like 'treating a sacred thing with a lack of reverence'. 02br
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00Take an extreme case. If my car starts to skid off the road towards a t
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