I’m not religious personally but TGI Fridays is a very popular after-church spot (according to all of the religious/former religious people I asked). Why are none of them mad about this?
How could they actively support a restaurant so sinful it includes a sin in the title?
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.
They’re too busy being mad about the service and quality of food.
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
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.
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.
The 4th commandment requires that we thank G-d for Friday.
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
Not religious but that only sounds like glorifying God instead of vain to me. It’s thanking God for what we have, no?
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.
Very far from all of them, but indeed too many sects are
Show me one religion that’s not full of full of shit hypocrisy.
Show me the one religion that says “hey we figured out the supernatural and here’s the proof”
Just one is all it would take to prove me wrong.
The fact is the idea of religion is a fundamental logical fallacy.
“There are thing beyond our reasoning. Here is how that stuff works”
Is cockamamie bullshit.
Not religious myself, but the essence of faith is that you don’t need scientific evidence but take it “on faith”. You trust that your beliefs, or something close to it, are the truth that will be revealed when your material life ends (and if you were devout, you usually get eternal bliss and happiness as a reward).
the essence of faith is that you don’t need scientific evidence but take it “on faith”. You trust that your beliefs, or something close to it, are the truth that will be revealed when your material life ends
This is a description of a demented mind.
Faith doesn’t need proof: it’s not logical, meant to be logical, nor applied in science (and nor should it be). That does not mean it’s hypocrisy.
You’re describing mental illness
It has to do harm in itself to be an illness. Don’t tell me you don’t have your own little rituals and habits.
My habits don’t carry a threat from supernatural forces if someone else doesn’t follow them. But you know this.
You made a bad faith argument in support of religion.
Which is expected. Because there are no good faith arguments for religion.
Because there is no way a human could comprehend anything beyond our universe, and pretending you can is just a lie, a hypocritical act that can’t be proven.
Take your bad faith to church where it belongs.
My habits don’t carry a threat from supernatural forces if someone else doesn’t follow them
Well why do you follow it, then? The reasons for that also apply to the reasons for superstitions.
You made a bad faith argument
I don’t understand how it is bad faith. Assuming something doesn’t have to be logical is no less unmoving than assuming it has to.
there is no way a human could comprehend anything beyond our universe, and pretending you can is just a lie
I agree. And I simply do not believe any of us can decide whether God exists or not, since that is also a comprehension. That doesn’t mean we can’t decide which comprehension we believe in more, just like we pick and choose the morals we prioritize.
pretending you can is just a lie, a hypocritical act
Finally, as I’ve said above, “lies” don’t have to be hypocritical.
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.
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 occasionally take me and my siblings there. Both her and my mother were faaaaiiiirly devout Catholics and raised us as such, amlnd they called it “Thank Goodness It’s Friday” when they had cause to use the long version
I always assumed it stood for “thank goodness it’s fridays” honestly.
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.
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!
ocontains 100% more hole than-.
the lords name
I’m not religious
Wut? If you’re not religious, why are you using the phrase “the lords name”?
Because it’s a common phrase and because one can accept that people have a name for their deity even if you believe that deity doesn’t really exist.
It’s a common thing religious people say “taking the Lords name in vain”. This is the thing people would call a sin. It wouldn’t be the same if phrased differently.
It’s a common thing religious people say
Exactly. How come you’re saying it?
My question is about what people who actively use that phrase would be upset about. Someone who says the lords name would be upset about “the lords name” specifically.
There’s a difference between being upset about some guy talking to some girl and being upset that your best friend John is flirting with your wife. The specific labels happen to matter even if they aren’t the terms I would use in any other circumstances.
Someone who says the lords name would be upset about “the lords name” specifically.
But it’s not “the lord’s name” because it’s not “the lord”, it’s “their lord”. Why would you include yourself as a subject of Christians’ “lord”?
No but I would talk about Santa despite not believing him.
This whole debate is stupid though… I used a very common phrase because it’s a common phrase that people use. That’s pretty much it. I’m done replying.
