LOL good catch
Raised Catholic, I now question who determined that saying "goddamn" is "taking the name of the Lord in vain." Sez who? And what does "in vain" mean—that it's an effort that won't work? So what? That's not such a big deal.
The Bible wasn't simply discovered one day, already miraculously completed in its current form by the unseen hand of God. It was physically written by human men and changed repeatedly by still more men down through the millennia. We tell/ask God to do stuff all the time. God help us, God save the president, God be with us, God bless this meal, God grant us this wish, God do this, God do that.
Then some guy decides to arbitrarily proclaim as if he's God that the one sole verb in the dictionary that can never follow God's name is the verb to damn, (as if that's God's most deeply godlike sacred purpose, function, or activity LOL)...and poof, a mortal sin is born. Using my God-given powers of logic, reason, and rational thought, I question this verb-banning, goddammit.
As such, I don't think it's playing God to call on him to damn something any more than it's playing God to direct him to do the countless other things we request/demand of him on a daily basis. I interpret the commandment as forbidding proclaiming that one is God, or impersonating him, or •ahem• claiming to have received special exclusive wisdom from him that he has denied to other men. Just IMHO
LOL good catch
Raised Catholic, I now question who determined that saying "goddamn" is "taking the name of the Lord in vain." Sez who? And what does "in vain" mean—that it's an effort that won't work? So what? That's not such a big deal.
The Bible wasn't simply discovered one day, already miraculously completed in its current form by the unseen hand of God. It was physically written by human men and changed repeatedly by still more men down through the millennia. We tell/ask God to do stuff all the time. God help us, God save the president, God be with us, God bless this meal, God grant us this wish, God do this, God do that.
Then some guy decides to arbitrarily proclaim as if he's God that the one sole verb in the dictionary that can never follow God's name is the verb to damn, (as if that's his most deeply godlike sacred purpose, function, or activity LOL)...and poof, a mortal sin is born. Using my God-given powers of logic, reason, and rational thought, I question this verb-banning, goddammit.
As such, I don't think it's playing God to call on him to damn something any more than it's playing God to direct him to do the countless other things we request/demand of him on a daily basis. I interpret the commandment as forbidding proclaiming that one is God, or impersonating him, or •ahem• claiming to have received special exclusive wisdom from him that he has denied to other men. Just IMHO
LOL good catch
Raised Catholic, I now question who determined that saying "goddamn" is "taking the name of the Lord in vain." Sez who? And what does "in vain" mean—that it's an effort that won't work? So what? That's not such a big deal.
The Bible wasn't simply discovered one day, already miraculously completed in its current form by the unseen hand of God. It was physically written by human men and changed repeatedly by still more men down through the millennia. We tell/ask God to do stuff all the time. God help us, God save the president, God be with us, God bless this meal, God grant us this wish, God do this, God do that.
Then some guy decides to arbitrarily proclaim as if he's God that the one sole verb in the dictionary that can never follow God's name is the verb to damn, (as if that's his most deeply godlike sacred purpose, function, or activity LOL)...and poof, a mortal sin is born. Using my God-given powers of logic, reason, and rational thought, I question this verb-banning, goddammit.
As such, I don't think it's playing God to call on him to damn something any more than it's playing God to direct him to do the countless other things we request/demand of him on a daily basis. Just IMHO