Do you find yourself still telling people to go to hell, even though you know there is no such place?
A coworker joking told me, after some wild-A$$ conversation, that I was going to hell. I said, there is no hell. He was quietly taken aback.
I tell people to F off or GO F YOURSELF.
actually if they read the bible, most people are already going to hell, so its hardly a threat.
Me and you.
I use loads of faith/god/religion related sayings 'Good god!', 'For heaven's sake', 'Jesus Christ!', '.....of biblical proportions', 'For the love of god/christ', I'm sure there are others, they don't mean anything other than being just another cuss. I do of course have the tried and trusted 'Fuck Off!', 'Piss Off' etc as well as a wide variety of other profanities and insults suitable for all occassions
I should really use piss off more
I don't think I ever told someone to go to hell? So nope!
However was in a movie theatre with my sister (who is Catholic) and during a tense moment - she yells out "Fuck no!" and I yell out "Jesus Christ!". We both did a double take... and then laughed our butts off.
Certain ingrained habits just stick!
That's pretty funny xD
I think I've done it...twice? Definitely once. When I was a young teenager.
I still tell religious assholes to go to Hell. It only matters that THEY believe it's real.
Yeah, I've done it once or maaaaybe twice in my life, about ten years ago give or take a year. These phrases are pretty prolific in society, so it just gets ingrained. I think most people probably still say Oh my god, but there's some others I say with god or jeebus in them. I made a point quite some years ago now of slurring "bless you" to pronounce it as "bleshue" - I got that idea from pronouncing Uranus as "Your-rain-es" (in other words, very disctintly putting two r's in there) since I was 9 or 10 lol.
No. When a conversation devolves to that point, "fuck off" is my go to.
Haha, yup.
It's still a place in most folks' minds, even if I don't personally believe in it's physical existence.
It gets the point acrost.
Sure. Linguistic hold overs. They have declined over time, but they still manifest.