Well, Don't Get Your Goddamn Panties In A Twist [View all]

[Rozlee]

I was in the Army as an RN and often taught battlefield trauma classes to Special Forces in the various military specialties, i.e. Rangers, SEALs. So, those boys taught me a lot of salty language that I've been trying to unlearn now that I'm a grandmother. But, it's hard. I was around that language for almost 15 years until I was sidelined by said battlefield trauma.

But, my favorite profanities are "goddamn" and "for crissake."

I love those words. They roll off my tongue in a way that pleases me and brings back good memories. I never cuss at my loved ones and rarely at other people (except when I read about teahadists and Rethugs pulling their usual crap.) My cussing is mostly descriptive, used for the most part as expletives, adjectives, etc.

I'm sure you all know where I'm going with this. The all too often admonishment to quit "taking the Lord's name in vain."

It doesn't help to tell them that "God" isn't the deity's name. "God is his title," I explain. "Now, if I'd said 'Jehovah damned or Yahweh damned' that would be different." I don't know if you've ever noticed, but unless the person admonishing you is a Jehovah's Witness, they really don't seem too shocked by taking in vain the actual name of their god. Probably because they really don't ascribe to it. I guess I'm just grousing. Didn't a Monty Python sketch once have a similiar discussion about it when a guy was trying to tempt god to strike him with lightning? I'm just so sick of being the only atheist in a large Catholic family with all this religion crap this election season and I'm blowing off steam. I'm putting a pillow over my head and screaming those two words until I'm raw in the throat. I'm sure that tornado warning has nothing to do with my cussing.