Taking the lord's name in vain isn't swearing or saying thank God, it's doing stuff "in the name of the Lord." Ergo, most so-called Christians in the US take the Lord's name in vain on a daily basis.
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Not an answer to your question but in looking it up this killed me....
"In 1965, Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in Manhattan. He lived on 63rd Street between First and York Avenues,[11] in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge. He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women."
Imagine being like "I need to meet women, I'll open a business." Lol
He paid $5000, or $50k in today's money in Manhattan. JFC... I can't even imagine what that would actually cost today.
Imagine being like "I need to meet women, I'll open a business." Lol
Like Facebook? Lol.
supply side jesus has different rules
When I was in the third grade (in Tennessee), I said “Oh my god,” and a girl said she’d tell the teacher I said a swear word. I didn’t understand and pushed back. She explained the “lord’s name in vain,” and that just wasn’t a thing in our house. I got pretty offended. I’m still offended at that stupid shit.
Fuck god, hail satan, gimme a beer.
That's the kind of thing that should've been a teachable moment about separation of church and state.
Why are none of them mad about this?
Because most people are colossal hypocrites.
Especially the religious
It's one of the traits all religions share
Other people have already given more useful answers, but this thread is the first time I've learned that it's "Thank God" rather than "Thank Goodness". It was only an occasional presence in my life when I was a child, my grandmother would sometimes take me and my siblings there. Both her and my mother were faaaaiiiirly devout Catholics and raised us as such, and they called it "Thank Goodness It's Friday" when they had cause to use the long version
Thank god! Oh my god! Sweet jesus!
None of these are considered using the lord’s name in vain.
God told me that… are evil people and are to be shunned. You must do … because god said so.
This is what was meant by using gods name in vain. Using god’s name to further their personal agendas. Consider that the next time someone tells you how to think because it’s what god wants.
Because religion is a set of rules for hypocrites to bind people they don’t like and suggestions for behavior for themselves which can be discarded, as they are only superstitions, not actual laws.
You could just as easily assume the G stands for "goodness" instead of "God."
That’s what jeebus folk do, rename and rationalize. Aww shucks (shit), darn (damn), oh gosh (goddamnit), fudge (fuck)
Presumably if you don’t say the actual curse word you and everyone else knows you’re meaning..jeebus will still like you.
Do they actually say what "TGI" stands for? Is there some legal document that says its full name is "Thank God It's Friday's"? Maybe it actually stands for "The Grumpy Intestine Friday's".
They spell it out under their FAQ but I doubt that's legally binding
TGI Fridays stands for Thank God it’s Friday!
Lol, they can't even decide if "Friday(s)" is singular or plural.
It's singular, but (strangely) possessive. Like, O'Malley's implies O'Malley's Bar, this would be the restaurant that belongs to TGIF.
It's not possessive without an apostrophe.
Oooo, good find! Busted.
Is it me or are people thinking more about religion lately? I know I am so I might be biased but some friends and family have brought it up as well despite none of us being religious.
My fiancé was raised extremely religious and managed to escape that life. The childhood teaching and consequences of said upbringing are always prevalent for us.
As for everyone else... The religious far-right has been growing rapidly across the entire globe so I imagine that has at least a part in it.
I reconnected with some old colleagues recently and they're both turned religious. One of them already was but it seemed much more intense now, the other seems surprising to me. Very unusual in my circles, I basically never interact with religious people or if I do it's so superficial it doesn't come up.
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Of all the gods that people have ever believed in, ones that are currently believe in and any future gods, I wonder which god they meant? ;)
Since Friday is literally Freya's day, I'd assume they were thanking her.
I don't know about TGI Fridays, but my parents were offended by ABC's TGIF branding.
Because it’s “Thank God It’s Friday,” not “God Dammit It’s Friday.”
Well now I want to open a bar called "God Dammit It's Monday". With the gimmick being that it's the bar for people who want to get blackout drunk.
"God dammit, it's Monday....I need a drink..."
GDI Mondays
Is it in vain? Don't most people unironnically mean they are happy it's Friday?
See, I'm not sure about the cutoff point... I've heard stories of people getting upset over "God this is so good" after taking a bit of a good meal.
Like I said, I'm not religious so idk all of the context here... I'm just curious why I've never seen any complaints about it at all. Not saying more should be upset, just curious.
Like religion itself, the reaction to the word is completely made up by the person witnessing it. Your experience will vary but gets progressively more aggressive the further south you get where Sherman should have burned all the way to the sea
You need more context to answer questions like that tbh. No Christian denomination is like another, so definitely some would find it distasteful to use God's name outside Church, but most people aren't like that lol. Most people just speak the same way you and everyone else does.
The 4th commandment requires that we thank G-d for Friday.
I always assumed it stood for "thank goodness it's fridays" honestly.
Thank Goodness Its Friday?
TGIF stands for Thank God it's Friday according their own FAQ:
Thank you! I was only finding "TGIF" sources, which wasa Friday night line up.
They're too busy being mad about the service and quality of food.
lol no
Didn't Friday's shut down over a decade ago? Chili's and Applebee's are all that's left, and the latter is barely clinging on.
No, there are still plenty around. I drive past one often enough to know they have decent drink specials.
Looked into it; looks like they simply decided to flee my state. The closest Friday's location to me is 300+ miles away in California.
You're thinking of Chotchkie's and Flingers.
Those were real? I thought they were just made up places from Office Space.
No, they're made up places. I was having fun, but the fun police saw I already had warrants.
It’s not uncommon for some sects to write G-d instead of God as a handy workaround, and even then “God” is already a euphemism for the Tetragrammaton rather than His actual name. So in that vein using “G” on its own is probably safe.
That's actually an unholey workaround! o contains 100% more hole than -.
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