Christian Terminology

Atheists, even me, often inadvertently use terminology that reinforces the Christian myth, e.g.

• blessed
• cursed
• eternal
• for god’s sake
• for heaven’s sake
• give up the ghost
• god damn you
• god when you really mean nature.
• god to refer to Yahweh, as if he were the only possible god, and as if you tacitly concede he exists, a god, one of a set of fictitious beings with certain grandiose attributes, thus stubbornly lumping the god Yahweh and Apollo always in the same category.
• godforsaken
• hell
• met his maker
• passed on
• passed over
• rest in peace
• soulless
• Speaking of Moses, David and Jesus as historical personages when the evidence is they are fictional characters.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)