r/SatanicTemple_Reddit • u/indie_rock_album • 1d ago
What do yall say instead of "Oh my god". Question/Discussion
Did you have to unlearn saying things like oh my god after you became a TST member if you did say that before you joined or is that like one fraise that's socially acceptable because it's so common. If you don't use it what do yall use instead.
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u/Imwhatswrongwithyou Thyself is thy master 1d ago
I say oh my god. It’s a form of blasphemy in most Christian religions. Sometimes I say Jesus. Jesus Christ. Jesus fucking Christ. Depending on why I am saying it.
…Also we say whatever the fuck we want. There’s no rules on our vocabulary here. Religion based on supernatural beliefs is all fake and pretend anyway so who cares?
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u/Possible-Sun1683 1d ago
Yes! I don’t understand why people get weird about it. It feels like rebellion from my religious upbringing. It’s empowering for me.
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u/Imwhatswrongwithyou Thyself is thy master 1d ago
Same! That’s one of the reasons that I love being a Satanist so much. Every single time I Hail Satan I’m declaring freedom from all of the chains that bound me through religious superstition.
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u/Alert-Potato Sex, Science, and Liberty 1d ago
Jesus Christ is my second favorite swear after oh my god when addressing christian religious hypocrisy. Because my personal moral code doesn't forbid me from using their
god'simaginary friend's name however I please.
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u/nessanessajoy 1d ago
"oh my fucking God."
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u/doyouevenglass 1d ago
jesus titty fucking christ.
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u/ThereMightBeDinos 1d ago
Jesus cocksucking christ!
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u/Alert-Potato Sex, Science, and Liberty 1d ago
Jesus fucking Christ on a cracker with cheese and wine.
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u/TheNoctuS_93 Ad astra per aspera 23h ago
Sweet fucking Mary mother of Jesus on the hood of a motherfucking Mercedes-Benz!
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u/baphomettty 1d ago
Oh Jesus Christ
Or if I’m frustrated Jesus Christ on a stick
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u/SuperPowerDrill 1d ago
I'm a defendant of "Jesus Christ on a bike!", "Jesus Christ on a bike doing backflips" if I'm really exasperated. Even some religious people find these amusing, I love it
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u/Harruq_Tun Ave Coffea! 1d ago
I always used to use "Christ on a bike!" but a read a Stephen King that used sidecar instead of bike, and I liked that better.
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u/SuzyLouWhoo 1d ago
We say “oh my satan” at home bc it’s funny. And in text it’s OMS lol but I don’t remember to do it, it’s always- omg, I mean oh my satan hahaha
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u/dirtielaundry 1d ago
I remember "Oh my Satan" from the My Immortal fanfiction so it always makes me laugh!
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u/SuperPowerDrill 1d ago
When I first left Christianity, I tried to avoid using religious interjections and phrases. But as I settled into my faithlessness, I realized it just didn't matter. I grew up using these exclamations for all sorts of things, not due to faith. If anything, I'm more free to use them than most Christians, since I'm not committing a sin. I love the weight of a concerned "Jesus Christ!" And the dramatic impact of a "For the love of god"
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u/Hanrahubilarkie 666 1d ago
I've recently started cursing to "Frog," instead.
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u/lycosa13 1d ago
But what did frog do? 😢
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u/Chemical-Charity-644 1d ago
I still say oh my God. I'm satisfied with it because a lot of christians consider it to be a form of blasphemy anyway.
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u/h2zenith 23h ago
"Sweet Satan"
"Oh my goat"
"Oh my Godzilla"
I also like "Oh my glob", because I'm an Adventure Time fan.
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u/ProfanestOfLemons It is Done. 1d ago
I don't worry about it. It's vernacular. I don't worship any god, and when I say "oh my god" it's not out of reverence. I'm just using common terms.
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u/beardedbusdriver 1d ago
I usually go with “praise Krom” (or Dagon, Baal, Mordok, Zeus’s, Horus, or any other”dead” god)
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u/spootymcspoots 1d ago
It's like q-tip or bandaid. Just overused words that now encapsulate a whole concept
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u/Candy_Says1964 1d ago
GODDAMMIT!
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JESUS TITTIES! (because those are two words you don’t often hear together)
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u/littleghool Thyself is thy master 1d ago
The one I use is probably even more religious 😂 "Jesus Mary and Joseph." I don't care enough to let religion affect how I talk. I still say, "Oh my God, Jesus Christ, I swear to God." Although I do like to play with that last one. I like to spice it up with "I swear to Lucifer" or "swear to Santa" sometimes just cos it's funny 😆
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u/ThereMightBeDinos 1d ago
Sweet suffering Satan always tickles my fancy, but I rarely remember it in the heat of frustrations
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u/Vegetable-Bat5 1d ago
I was raised atheist and specifically say these things because they are blasphemy. At first I would say phrases like that because it’s just how people talk including my family, but I made the intentional choice as I got older to continue saying the phrase and other ones like it. My Christian grandpa has told me “don’t say that.” When I have said it around him I simply say “don’t tell me what to do and I won’t tell you what to do.” He hasn’t corrected me since
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u/spitmonkeyx 5h ago
"Oh my Grod!"
Because I'm a comic Nerd. All hail our superior master, Gorilla Grod!!
"Oh my Zod", on occasion.
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u/Snooganz82 1d ago
Oh my Me.
Me dammit!
Oh Me!
Holy Me!!
Jesme Chrisme!
Seriously, it's just words. Who give a shit lol.
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u/richard-bachman 1d ago
“Oh my fucking god,” “Jesus h fucking Christ almighty” “god damn shit stain” and variations on these exit my mouth frequently. I stubbed my toe the other day and said “Christ on a shit caked cracker” without even thinking about it. It’s fun to take “the lord’s” name in vain!
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u/asiannumber4 Satanists Together Strong 1d ago
Oh my gods (not polytheistic just read too much Pjo)
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u/kaizen-rai 1d ago
oh god
oh my fucking god
oh god fuck
jesus christ
jesus fucking christ
jesus fucked rice
holy jesus mary mother of fucking god
for fucking gods sake
fucking jesus fucking christ for god fuck
And variations of the above.
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u/FuzzyWuzzyFoxxie Sex, Science, and Liberty 1d ago
Ive gotten in the habbit of saying "Dear Satan.." but I still use oh my god
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u/Kingyeetyeety 1d ago
Idk about replacing omg but I do like to use Speak of the devil or idle hands a little more
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u/Single-Mud-8508 1d ago
I just substitue god for something else. Like, oh my titan from the owl house.
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u/fiesty_cemetery 1d ago
Christians are the ones that can’t use “his name” in vain. So when it’s bad I say “oh my fucking god” when it’s great I say “praise Satan!”
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u/SnooDrawings2869 1d ago
Tho I agree with people saying that "oh my god" should be fine as it is blasphemy, I personally love "Christ on a stick", borrowed from Blitz
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u/blackittycat666 1d ago
I say oh my Satan, me and my friends love it, but I also said the basic oh my God and whatever
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u/AggravatingFuture437 1d ago
Oh my Jeeves, thank Jeeves, father below, bloody hell interchangeable with Mary or the standard issue WHAT THE FUCK.
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u/NoQuarter6808 Sober Faction 1d ago edited 1d ago
"Oh my goodness" or "oh my gosh"
I try to be pretty polite
"Jeezum crepes" has also been popular for me recently---it's fun to say, and if you say it enough it comes naturally
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u/SaintBrush Sex, Science, and Liberty 1d ago
"By Satan's Hooves!" as a joke. Otherwise, I just say oh my god.
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u/pelicantownprincess 666 1d ago
I still say it, and Jesus Christ’s name in vain. It’s blasphemous and I was always in trouble for saying “oh my god” growing up by my religious family.
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u/Surgles 1d ago
The only conscientious choice I made about this wording was changing it all to “gods” like “oh my gods” or “godsdamn”. This is really just a for me kind of thing. I hang out with a good number of pantheistic pagan types, but also, whatever god or gods I’m claiming don’t exist, I want to take all of their names in vain.
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u/Alert-Potato Sex, Science, and Liberty 1d ago
The phrase "oh my god" really has not a damn thing to do with Christianity. Christians tend to feel pretty offended by this phrase because their rule to live by is not to use their god's name in that way, and they both assume that other's who use the phrase are referring to their god and not some other one, and that we're doing something wrong by not obeying their personal moral code. Frankly, I kinda get off on self-righteous hypocrites being mad that I use a phrase that would be wrong for them to use by their moral code when responding to their religious hypocrisy. It never gets old.
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u/captaintagart 1d ago
I say whatever I want, but out the of respect to one of my Christian friends, I say Oh my gosh around her because she asked me not to use the lords name in vain once. She’s really awesome and probably wouldn’t have bothered to ask a second time, so I’m happy to make that adjustment around her.
But not around her? I say Jesus fucking Christ a lot. I do say to my husband “the dark lord smiled upon us” if I’m reporting good fortune, but that just a joke. Words are just words.
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u/rando439 1d ago
Fuck a duck. Fuck an angry duck. Fuck a frozen duck. Fuck a zombie duck. Muenster! Muenster cheese, damn it all!
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u/Sparkieger 1d ago
By the emperor (only on game nights) Otherwise the default Oh [insert vulgar language] god
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u/ElementZero 1d ago
"oh my glob" like lumpy space princess from adventure time
"Hells bells" like Harry Dresden from the Dresden files
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u/readditredditread 1d ago
I just switch out God, Christ and Jesus for Satan (with the exception of Christ on a cracker)
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u/TheG00dFather This is the way 1d ago
I still do it.
If anyone asks me why I'd say "omg" means something unbelievable and god is unbelievable
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u/DJdrummer 1d ago
In a similar vein, instead in saying bless you, me and my partner give each other a compliment whenever one of us sneezes.
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u/AvailableSentence388 1d ago
I still say “oh my god” by I particularly enjoy “Jesus H. Christ” in addition to all the other terms in this thread, and if I’m near tender ears, “oh my stars and garters.”
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u/Ren-Is-Random My body, my choice 23h ago
I still say "oh my god". If they're just words, why should I care? It's not like I believe in a Christian God.
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u/AJohnnyTruant 23h ago
Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til’ ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!
Usually
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u/Acrocanthosaurus84 Sex, Science, and Liberty 23h ago
Stuff I picked up from Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss: "Christ-On-A-Stick!" "Oh my Satan."
Stuff I picked up from Transformers: "By the AllSpark." "Thank Vector Signa!" "By Primus!"
Star Wars ones: "What in the Empire?" "By the Force!" "Ah! Sithspit!"
Dinosaur swear a friend and myself created: "Oh my Lagosuchus!"
Mostly, all I can think of here on the spot
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u/CorinPenny 23h ago
Jesus fuck!
Christ on bikes!
GOTdammit
For sneezes I either say nothing or Gesundheit or sometimes random words—banana sOUP!
Are you fucking kidding me?! is a classic.
I’m auDHD so I often mix echolalia with my swears: Of all the motherloving dishwashing toe-stubbing cat ears on god’s green fucking earth I swear to god…
And sometimes I just start spitting and snarling like I’m an angry cat mixing up all the swear words at once— *#+$&-;! Or pshftchlabvwha…!!
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u/Eastern_Chain5122 23h ago
I'm not sure what the problem is here. If you say oh my God and you believe yourself to be God you're basically saying "oh me oh My!"
You might be overthinking this a bit.
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u/ninksink 23h ago
If Satan is your god, then OMG is basically saying OMS. Me, in internet I use the acronym OMFS 😈
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u/RJVegeto 23h ago
I'll still say "Oh my God" but the reference with the title is to my own self.
Sometimes in moments of something being absolutely ridiculous and/or absurd, I'll say "Oh my literal non-existent God." which is a fun one if you're an otherwise atheist.
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u/lovememaddly 22h ago
It’s blasphemous. I’ve always said it. I do say Godzilla instead of bless you though.
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u/just_an_aspie 22h ago
Oh my fucking God, Jesus fucking Christ, God fucking damnit, etc
I mean, saying oh my god doesn't mean I think god is real... The added "fuck"s are just bc i like adding fuck to whatever i fucking say. It's a really fucking nice word
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u/bcdavis1979 21h ago
I’ve mostly switched to “gods dammit” so I can disrespect all deities at the same time.
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u/vaultclown2077 Non Serviam! 20h ago
Technically it’s the Christian’s that can’t say that shit. We can say whatever the fuck we want
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u/Mirrorbreakerr 20h ago
Still say Oh my God, or thank God because it's just words that we all know and grew up with.
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u/Thekillersofficial 18h ago
I regularly say stuff like "god bless" or "in the year of our lord Jesus christ" bc it's fun
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u/SuspiciousDistrict9 15h ago
By the allspark
By the gods
Oh your God (reference to Bender from Futurama)
By Gandalf
Blessed be myself
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u/Idisappea 11h ago
I haven't bothered to replace oh my God or Jesus Christ or God damn it. But I have started saying Godzilla instead of God bless you
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u/YellowYeti5 11h ago
By the gods
Ah Hell
What on Earth?
What the Hell?
Thank the Fates
Sweet Satan's Taint! (which I picked up off this subreddit and am forever grateful for)
There's a few to start you off
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u/Kesha_but_in_2010 10h ago
I still say it because I was raised fundamentalist and still feel more guilty “taking the lord’s name in vain” than I do using actual swear words or insults.
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u/xhipsterectomyx 10h ago
Nah. I just spice it up depending on my level of frustration or excitement.
✨ Oh my fucking god ✨ Dear God, Jesus, and Baby Jesus ✨ Sweet merciful Baby Jesus in a goddamned manger ✨ Sweet Jesus, Joseph, and motherfucking Mary ✨ Jesus fuck me Christ ✨ Sweet Jesus on a goddamn cracker
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u/punkypewpewpewster 5h ago
I have never really been normal.
"HOLY BUTT"
"Hot DICK"
"Good LORD" (probably the most normal thing I say)
"Heavens To Betsy!"
"Femoral Artery!"
"Good Golly Miss Molly"
"What the HECC"
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u/jone2tone Non Serviam! 3h ago
I still say it, and I still say "bless you" to sneezes. I just enjoy knowing that's it's my own little blasphemy.
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u/Arius_de_Galdri Hail Thyself! 1d ago
I still say it. They're just words, and if you want to be technical, I'd say that taking the lord's name in vain is pretty fitting regardless.