So, bigots, if Islam is so horrible, why aren't you walking or biking to work?

[Bluenorthwest]

115. In a religious context, 'terrible' has several connatations, Psalm 47, verse 2 in the KJV says:

"For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth." In this sense of the word, 'terrible' means formidable, powerful, and more modern translations will use 'awesome' in the Bible where KJV uses 'terrible'. I think 'awesome' in current use tends to mean 'really good' rather than 'inspiring awe' and so it's not a great choice really. Too 'Bill and Ted'.
Current use of 'terribly' includes being used to mean 'very' or 'extremely' as in 'terribly long lines for the snack bar', which means the lines are really long, not that they are perilous or evil, just big.
I thought it might be worth a moment with the actual religious use of the word 'terrible' in a thread about religions being terrible. Perhaps it is ironic that people are insulted that a religion is called terrible when God is called terrible in the Bible. If it's good enough for God, it should be good enough for the Godly.

I kid. But also, that which has the power to take human life is formidable, governments and religions and the two together very often take lives in wars and under dubious laws. This is not an aspect of a small, fuzzy entity, but of a huge, powerful entity.
So I would not say flatly 'religion is terrible' in the sense that airplane food is terrible, but to say religions are terrible great things in the sense that the Bible says the Lord most high is terrible seems pretty spot on to me.