Atheist Profanity. I once challenged my 15 year old and friends to come up with curse words that do not contain religious or biological references. They failed. So we invented a few: "Joel, you are such a tuning fork." "Susan is such a black-eyed pea." "Differentiate this!" (In your face calculus trash talk.) But all agreed, they were not as satisfying as good old F and Sh bombs. So, is profanity important to our cultures, and how much profanity relates to religion or religious taboos. (MF)? Should atheists develop their own?
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Scatalogical cursing / humor is pretty universal and not specifically sacrilegious. But cursing inherently is for the purpose of flouting widely held norms to bring attention to how angry / upset you are. So it pretty inherently has to be religious or scatalogical in nature in order to work on most anyone. In a majority religious society, curses that profane, say, reason would be lost on most people.
mordant
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Feb 14, 2018
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Holy DOG ! Oppsy daisy. That still has a religious word in it Ah well.
Holy MOLLY
Holy DOOLY
For pity's sake
Well that tore it
Dash it
Damn it
What the Dickens
Starve the lizards (Australian saying )
Get off the grass !
For Pete's sake
They're all kinda lame aren't they 
Skyfacer
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Feb 14, 2018
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No, it's a remark of being astonished by something.
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