Is saying "Oh my Gosh/Goodness" blasphemy?

[fin]

My nephew was saying Oh My God. So we reprumanded him and said, you can say ‘Oh my goodness’ instead.

How can oh my goodness considered a blasphemy?

 

[GG_Gecko]

I’m going to set up a strawpoll, I think.

Here’s a link: Is it ok to say "Oh my Gosh!/Oh ... - Straw Poll

 

[Dlee]

What about “Oh my?” Where do we stop?

 

[Pup7]

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Indiana for the win.

There’s even a Goshen College. Funny thing is - it’s Mennonite.

I guess they’re on the same bus the rest of us blasphemers are on. Dagnabbit.

 

[otjm]

Are you OCD and/or scrupulous?

 

[mVitus]

We had a nun that said “Land o’Lakes”. To a second grader that’s kinda funny.
She did say “oh my goodness”.

That makes me think how until I was somewhere from 11-14 I used the Russian city of Krasnojarsk as one of my substitutions. Stub a toe? "Krasnojarsk!"p

 

[AlbertDerGrosse]

Gesundheit!

 

[dallas_r]

I say it all the time. Gosh does not equal God. We do not say “Glory be to the one true Gosh”. Goodness/gosh is perfectly acceptable.

 

[Mtdobbs]

There are no words that I can say to properly express how I feel about this topic. I’ll just take another sip of my coffee and say to myself “Oh my goodness, this coffee is amazing.”

 

[Pup7]

Jeez, dude…you could share.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

 

[Tis_Bearself]

That makes me think how until I was somewhere from 11-14 I used the Russian city of Krasnojarsk as one of my substitutions. Stub a toe? "Krasnojarsk!"p

I would have found that hilarious at age 11-14. Had guys in my class doing all kinds of that silly stuff.
Actually, it sounds like a good idea now.

I often say “Oh, fahrvergnugen” since I used to work with a guy who would say that in the lab when something didn’t work, during the time when Volkswagen had the phrase in heavy rotation for its US commercials.

 

[tweedlealice]

Say them, all you want! Gloriousky. God, JESUS CHRIST & HOLY SPIRIT ARE GODS NAME.O have learned, at frazzled times to say prayers to God, using the short term prayer. “God help us.””Jesus, have mercy.””Holy Spirit forgive our sins.”

 

[exnihilo]

You are asking about minced oaths. Minced oaths are a way of saying something without using the actual word. ‘Gosh darn it’ is a way of saying ‘God d**n it’. Jeez is a way of saying Jesus Christ. Context matters. A priest may say Jesus Christ, but it is much different than when many people I know say it.

Many blasphemous phrases are quite common since we live in a blasphemous culture. We may not even realize this since it is so common. We as Catholics should not join in.

That said, I think ‘oh my gosh’ is fine anytime you could rightly say ‘oh my God’. The rightness of using it is far less than is common in many people’s speech today. Many people litter their speech with OMG which is certainly profane.

 

[Pup7]

You are asking about minced oaths. Minced oaths are a way of saying something without using the actual word.

Everything is a minced oath. Absolutely all of them are euphemistic substitutes. All of them.

It’s hairsplitting.

 

[exnihilo]

Why do you call it hair splitting? If the sentiment is proper then you don’t need a minced oath.

 

[Pup7]

It’s hair splitting because by your reasoning one should just say nothing. Everything is a substitute. All of it. From “Good grief” to “oh gosh”.

It’s hair splitting, and it feeds scruples.

 

[exnihilo]

It is not hair splitting. It is calling it what it is. Not everything is a minced oath. As I said if you can say the real word and not the minced oath then you are fine. You can say either the real word or the minced oath. But if that is true there is no need for the minced oath. Just because people don’t seem to care about it doesn’t make it right.

 

[Pup7]

Good grief. (See what I did there?)

No, it’s hair splitting. Just because you think it’s not doesn’t mean it isn’t.

I’m done with the tit for tat.

 

[exnihilo]

Just saying it is hair splitting doesn’t make it so. Minced oaths exists for a reason. Understanding that reason isn’t hair splitting. Hair splitting is paying attention to fine details. Understanding why people use minced oath is the primary detail. You may disagree with me but saying I’m splitting hairs isn’t at all true.