if i'm an atheist, does that mean i'm not allowed to use the phrase "oh my god"?

Yes. Also you aren't allowed to say "holy ****" unless you actually believe **** is holy.

If you were a Christian you'd need to be worried about taking the Lord's name in vain. It's a sin. So technically, it's the believers who are not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain...or scream "oh my God" when they see something gross or whatever. But an atheist doesn't believe in any God, let alone an angry punishing God, so therefore is "allowed" by himself to use "God" however he wants. Believers, however, will think you're a sinner and all that.

Nope. I use it all the time. It's just part of the language.

I say "okay" a lot too, but I never use it in reference to an old, nasty political campaign in Oklahoma around the time of the American Civil War.

no it will actually be okay. people who claim they believe in god should NOT use that phrase as that is taking his name in vain.

im atheist i say that phrase a few times. in a way if you think about it basically your mocking god because it's ironic that your saying it as an atheist. but obviously we didn't mean it in that way.

So anti-gay people can't say f*ggot? It's the other way around all the way to down town this way or the highway Jack which way is it gonna be huh Jack? Where's the map Jack? UH?! You take us all the way out here into the desert and for what Jack for what?? Jack come back, come back, Jack, Jack come back, come back...

-Rose

No, that is not a requirement.

In our present culture, phrases such as that and "Merry Christmas" and "Bless You" (after a sneeze) are not considered to be statements of one's beliefs.

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Actually Christians are not suppose to day "Oh my god." People often say "OH don't say the lords name in vain." It's people who aren't Christian who can say it.

No. It means you don't subscribe to the theory that there is a deity outside of the universe, watching us all masturbate and then sentencing us to death for it.

Actually, it means you ARE allowed to use it. Christians aren't supposed to say such things.

You know, it's bothered me about how everyone says, "oh God" instead of something like, "Oh Allah" or "Oh Buddah"