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For the Love of God

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    #32
    Mark Hamill
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    C14N wrote: »
    (although substituting "science" for "God" doesn't really make sense because they aren't mutually exclusive but the point still stands).

    Eh what?:confused:


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    #33
    Newaglish
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    Mark Hamill wrote: »
    Eh what?:confused:

    I think he's saying that science isn't the opposite of God nor do you have to be an atheist to be a scientist.


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    #34
    C14N
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    Newaglish wrote: »
    I think he's saying that science isn't the opposite of God nor do you have to be an atheist to be a scientist.

    Yes. Some Christians act like science is the work of the devil and some atheists act like they own science. I was just pointing out that they're totally different.


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    #35
    goose2005
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    By Jove, you're right!


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    #36
    kylith
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    I do say things like 'Jesus' on hearing news from people in front of whom I wouldn't swear. I tend to use 'gods' instead of 'god' these days (saying ''gods' only know'', for example) because I found it easier than retraining myself not to mention the g-word after saying it for so long. I feel better about it and I suspect that most people don't notice.

    As Dades says, it's nice to be able to blaspheme when you hit your thumb with a hammer.


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    #37
    Malari
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    kylith wrote: »
    As Dades says, it's nice to be able to blaspheme when you hit your thumb with a hammer.

    As Bill Bryson said, the next time someone claims that 'Jesus is the answer' just say 'only if the question is: what do you say when you hit your thumb with a hammer?'


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    #38
    bnt
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    When I saw the question I thought of this movie scene, but couldn't find a clip before. Note that this scene is set in Texas, where they're not quite as liberal as we are about such language:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdW1wdpEP4Y

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #39
    kylith
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    I just stuck an 's' on the end; 'for gods' sake', 'gods only know' and so on.


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    #40
    Sarky
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    I've made a game of seeing how blasphemous I can make my exclamations. The answer is "pretty damn".


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    #41
    im invisible
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    Dades wrote: »
    I think when you hit your thumb with a hammer it doesn't matter whether you're religious or not.
    there are no atheists in foxholes? :pac:


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    #42
    Sarky
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    Thunderin' sh*te'n holy mother o' c*ntbucketin' jaysis!


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