Do atheist curse words containing the word God have any meaning?

Atheist here:

I wasn’t much for such curse words when I was younger. I felt I should be able to express myself accurately and with humor without them.

Then I heard Graham Chapman utter a perfectly timed “Jesus Christ!” in Python’s Holy Grail.

I was instantly converted.

Jesum Crow, no!

Nope, that’s why we get to use them. They’re all ours!

I’m an equal-opportunity blasphemer.

Jesus titty-fucking Christ…

No.

I do try not to use God’s name in vain when around my Christian friends.

And word (religious or not) can be a curse word. I could say “Oh Chocolate” instead if “Jesus Fucking Christ” and it would be just as meaningless.

Except I like chocolate.

Words are just words.

That’s implying any curse word has an actual meaning. When I say godammit, I’m not asking god to damn anything I’m just expressing frustration. My mom used to say weird shit (not literal shit) like “beans and apple butter”. Nonsense.

I use them because my family is religious, and they had a big impact.

Occasionally when I slip up and say “oh thank god”, I add in “Oh wait he doesn’t exist” afterwards lol

Raised in a house where one parent didn’t like us referencing deities in contexts other than debates against religion, I tend not to use them. It took me years to feel comfortable saying “bless you” to a sneeze, instead of purposefully “sh”-ing the “ss” . . . As in: blesh-oo!—And that’s not even a curse!—To say “bless you,” I felt as if I was misrepresenting myself to others and betraying my own beliefs/allegiances. Now that sense of guilt is gone, but many of the words feel unfamiliar to me… Even though I’ve gotten the clean “ss” into my responses to sneezes, I still find myself saying “geez” instead of “Jesus,” and “gaww dammit” instead of “God damn it,” etc.

^^You can just say gasundheit. I think most Americans are familiar with that to address a sneeze.

I like the Seinfeld answer to the sneeze blessing: “You are SOOO good-looking!”

I do recall thinking “thank god I’m an atheist” on a few occasions. When I catch myself it always makes me laugh!

I blaspheme fairly regularly and as far as I’m concerned, they’re meaningless words.

Of course, they are an expression of disbelief and frustration. Or an expression of awe. Thats pretty much it.

No. They are verbal expressions, like anybody else would use.

I’m almost hesitant to say Fuck no! for fear of whatever mental image picture you may conjure up.

Ah, fuck it. Blow me.