Maybe misusing the name of God isn’t so much about saying the shallow words, “Oh my God,” as it is about using the name of God to justify discrimination, oppression, injustice, racism, slavery, xenophobia, poverty, sexism, islamophobia, ableism, homophobia, war, & the list can go on.
Amen
When I was a wee little Gaslight attending Catholic Sunday schools, and then later in college when I was taking a Bible as Literature class, both my stolid neighborhood deacon and my dapper Protestant professor said almost the exact same thing:
“Taking the Lord’s name in vain isn’t when someone says ‘God damn it.’ It’s when a mortal, fallible human being presumes to put words in God’s mouth and say ‘This is what God wants you to do.’“
The word “moist” is the Number One universally reviled word in the English language due to both its definition and the way it sounds. Similarly gross words include
chunks
curdling
squirt
munch
bulbous
pustule
sink
squirm
slippery
Which got me wondering, can I elicit the same emotions with words that have no meaning? And the answer is “Yes, yes you definitely can.”
So here it is: words and phrases that elicit “thanks, i hate it!” by sheer negative sonority
scrungo
beesechurger
mingus
hurgling
tungus
Scrimmy Bingus and the Crungy Spingus
slurm
chungus
crungle
gunch
But did you know you can make it even worse by combining them??
