I feel kind of embarassed that my brain went "Fucking any of them"

As long as it's not fucking Wonderwall

This entire comment is predicated off of a false assumption.

It sounds like you are saying that "they deserve it".

No. I am saying that they do not deserve protections of speech as Christians are not a oppressed minority but the oppressive majority. I'm not seeing the difference between "Jesus Christ" being called a slur or somehow derogatory towards Christians and some some white supremacist claiming that "Cracker" is a slur.

You're also putting far too much emphasis on what you think that I feel instead of asking for clarification. This is also deeply bothering me because I do not fucking care about Christianity. It isn't a concern of mine nor something that drifts across my thoughts. I do not think about it. I do not change my life for it. It's a fairy tale that was invented thousands of years ago to get people to listen to basic rules and has turned into a tool of extreme hatred and oppression. So forgive me if I have little patience or care for the entire institution. I'm not saying it out of malice. I'm saying it because I don't fucking care. I do not consider Christianity because it does not consider me.

and if it is okay to make fun of Christians, then put that in the sidebar

Once again. You are really sounding like a white supremacist claiming that "cracker" is somehow a slur. It is not "making fun of Christians" to say Jesus Christ. It simply isn't. You can be upset by it all you want, and that's valid to be upset by it, but you do not get to reframe reality so that your personal feelings on the matter override how things work. Saying "Jesus Christ!" is not a swear, it is not a curse, it is not hatred directed at someone. It is an exclamation of surprise or bewilderment. It is not mocking of Christianity but you suggesting that a literal slur that, when spoken, is evidence of a hate crime feels pretty fucking mocking of my community and everything we've gone through.

Christians are killed all the time, but anyway this seems neither the time nor the place to get too deep into all of that - but if it helps, yes Christians are killed, not so much in the USA obviously. Hatred and bigotry exists everywhere in the world, it is part of our human nature, it just takes different forms in different local areas, each according to whatever excuses the people currently in power there try to use to weild their authority over others.

And in no instance or example of that was "Jesus Christ!" ever said during it as a slur or hatred. The worst you can argue is that someone said "You believe in Jesus Christ!" It was never used as a swear. No one says "You Jesus Christ!" It is not a term used in hatred but a term used in surprise and I am beyond furious at you daring to suggest that Christians being killed for their religion is even remotely comparable to gay people being disowned by their families, being evicted, being killed, killing themselves, etc

I'm not even going to bother responding to the rest of your comment. You've made way too many assumptions about my opinions, my stances and my feelings without asking for clarification. You've compared the usage of "Jesus Christ" as a remark of exclamation to a word that is said in spitting venom, hatred, and is used during hate crimes. These are not the same and you have managed to offend me so severely in even suggesting that they are that I had to outright leave my fuckin house and walk away for a while before I broke shit and also guaranteed I'm never going to interact with you ever again. I do not appreciate people trying to compare hate crimes with a phrase spoken casually on a daily basis by Christians.

Also, what would Jesus have preferred here? Seriously? That someone use his name as an exclamation of surprise or that someone compare using his name as an exclamation of surprise with the poor, weak, downtrodden upon and victimized who have had to hear the word faggot spat in their face by people who were deemed their guardians and protectors? Because the Jesus I was raised on? He would have shrugged and said "They know not what they do."

But I dunno. Maybe I read a different book.

Have a good day.

Who have we decided to be, here, in this place, at this time?

Not Christian.

I am not stopping my usage of that phrase. Ever. I'll limit it around people who are uncomfortable by it, but I'm not going to stop using it because I do not respect a religion that does not respect me. I refuse to play by rules that others do not. I refuse to limit myself based off of the whims of a few when the whims of those few killed my people for years.

Christians are not an oppressed minority. They do not get special treatment and I am honestly nearing 'enraged' territory because my entire life I've been told to fit into the mold of Christians. Whether it's how I talk, how I act, the people I love... it doesn't matter. And now you're telling me that I can't say an extremely common phrase that is used by Christians because it might upset them? No. Simply no. The entire religion upsets me by its simple existence and insistence that I am not a real person or that I am less of one.

That's the thing I really need to hammer home to you. Christians are everywhere. Y'all get say in everything, including how children are raised. What stores are open when. What things are taught in school. What politicial motivation a candidate has. Frankly, you have too much power and you have too much say. I have had to curtail so much in my life or suffer the hatred and ostricazation of Christians that I am simply not going to bow and curtail to Christians in my language. If you don't like it, tough. I don't like your entire religion and the fact that it has killed so many of people, driven them to suicide, stunted children, gotten them molested, the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and I'm only talking about shit that I personally have had to deal with from either personal experiences with creepy as fuck priests, creepy Christians, heavy parents that shamed my gay friends into taking their own lives, etc.

You're not changing my opinion. Ever. Christians do not deserve special treatment when the entire institution refuses to give it to other people.

And trying to compare "Jesus Christ" to "Fag" had me actively say outloud "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME" so I'm going to need to go calm down now. One of those is a phrase that is used in media. The other is a word that was yelled in my face when someone stabbed me.

They do not fucking equate. When was the last time Christians were rounded up and summarily beaten to death in a dark alley while having Jesus Christ yelled in their face? When was the last time one was strung up to a fence and beaten then left exposed to the elements after having that yelled in their face? When was the last time that Christians were bullied walking down the streets holding hands with someone else having that yelled in their face? When was the last time that Christians had fear of telling other people they were Christians because they'd lose their jobs, their families, their friends, their homes? I am actually shaking with rage.

I have no love for religion when it has killed people in my community and when it has been used to spit hate in my face, as a gay man, on a constant basis throughout my life. I am certainly not going to be respecting one of their 10 Commandments in not taking the lords name in vain when they don't respect the commandments in loving thy neighbor. I do not respect a religion that does not respect me. It is as simple as that. This is a two way street and the oppressed and scapegoated minority is definitely not the one who should make the first move. Especially when "Do not take the lords name in vain" could be applied to a trillion other things, such as using the Lords name to justify support for a party of hateful bigots that stand antithetical to everything the bible claims Jesus to be. Wanna make clear, I'm talking about religion as a whole there and not specifically religious people. It's just hard to reconcile as a gay guy.

I wrote Rule 1, it doesn't really apply here because Jesus Christ is a generalized swear. It's not used as an anti-Christian epithet. It's not used as a form of hate speech in regards to the religion or the people who use it. It's an expression of extreme surprise. It wasn't used in regards to Christians or in specific to them. Didn't attack them, didn't question them, didn't refer to them. I said two words that have been used in this capacity for at least 200 years.

Lastly, the title is just quoting a movie. "Jesus Christ, it's Jason Bourne." And that's one of the primary reasons why I definitely don't care about using the phrase. There aren't really any protections for it in media outside of normal swearing. It's been adopted into the main stream as an expression of frustration. Religion has little to do with it anymore.