So I recently [forgot what I searched in google] came across this.
Click here to see the original one.
The girl was asking why do people say Oh My God! in life threatening situations?
And the BEST answer was:
"Why do we all close our eyes wen we pray? Because it's built in and so is the reality that there really is a God. And we were created to house his spirit in us. Everyone who spends time in nature knows of him as well as small children. We say we don't know or believe but really we do."
And another answer:
Well you wouldn't say "Oh my [insert something that doesn't exist here]!" So therefore I think that in a sense I have to agree with you. I think it is in the back of their minds whether they realize it or not they know there was a creator and they don't know how to express it. You wouldn't talk about something that doesn't exist or even has no possibility of existing. Heck, I can't even think of an example of something that doesn't exist/has no possibility of existing.
I thought that was pretty sad when I read it, as in "I'm trying to take every little thing and mix it up with religion" sad. :/ I can't add more of a comment, because I think the whole thing speaks for itself. Lol.
You can read the rest of the topic when you go to the link, there were people arguing about when we say "holy sh-t" we don't actually think our sh-t is holy. xD
And the other funny thing I recently read was in the 2nd book in the series UGLIES by Scott Westerfield called "Pretties".
I'm not done with it yet but so far it has mentioned this 3 times, and I'll quote only 2/3 because I only remember two of the pages.
Note - For any of you who don't know this, this book is suppose to be based off way into the future when our generation right now has already destroyed the world.
Rusties = us right now, or "back then" in the book.
"The longer she stayed alone out here [in the wild, by herself], the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them."
[in this one, a bunch of men living out in the wild cought Tally]
"God, he's said. The old Rusty word for their invisible superheroes in the sky.
This was their world out there - this raw, cruel wilderness with its disease and violence and animal struggle for survival."
So what do you guys think about these? O:
