Is saying "Oh my Gosh/Goodness" blasphemy?

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Pretty sure this guy’s frying in Hell. Those weren’t Psalms he was reciting, in duck Latin.
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“Is saying “Oh my Gosh/Goodness” blasphemy?”

No. Those phrases were made as a substitute for blasphemy phrases, and you can use them when you want.
I’ve heard nuns say “Oh my goodness” anyway so…
 
Seriously.

When you get down to it, they’re all euphemisms. I have bigger fish to fry than this stuff, as I’m sure most of us do. LOL.
 
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We had a nun that said “Land o’Lakes”. To a second grader that’s kinda funny.
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I spent some time in Lebanon and learned that it’s common among Arabs to shout “mommy!” when startled. I think it’s kinda cute. I’d recommend that those who feel they’re violating the 2nd Commandment with “Oh my gosh!” make the switch, but I suppose that would just beg a thread on “Mommy!” being a violation of the 4th Commandment.
 
Well, I think that this thread is getting a bit silly, but your post reminded me of a little story that might lighten this thread.

A visiting mother of our neighbors would often visit for weeks at a time . She is a very pious woman, and she would use the expression “Mary, Jesus and Joseph” fairly often.

One day, my wife overhead our then 3 year old son saying “Jesus, Mary and Joseph”. She decided that she had better put a stop to it, and rushed into the other room. However, she was a bit embarrassed to discover that our son was playing with the childrens’ nativity set.
 
“Great Caesar’s ghost!!”

Perry White. Editor, Daily Planet.
 
In exactly what universe is “oh my gosh” or “Oh my goodness” using the name of the Lord in Vain??? I imagine in your world, the word “geez” is absolute apostasy??
 
When I was about 12 or 13 we lived across the street from a house with two boys my age. We were playing something in the back yard when something caused me to exclaim, “My Lord” The father, who was a mouth breathing knuckle dragging Pentecostal minister not only ordered me off his property, but wouldn’t let his sons ever speak to me again, and came over and gave my dad he** for raising such a rotten kid. I never connected it with “blasphemy” of any sort as lord is a term for an English nobleman. (And yes, obviously it is for our Savior) but I didn’t connect it that way. Oh well, some people can’t take a joke.
Trick or treat was fun that Halloween. My folks told me not to go to that house for treats.
Didn’t say anything about tricks. Sugar down a gas tank in a 1960 car, sure was nasty. I’m still ashamed of that one.
Thank heaven (that probably would get me condemned too) the old buzzard is dead by now.
 
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“Land 'o Goshen, Paw!”

Hey…it’s a place!
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Not to mention (middle of the picture) . . .

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