SundayI just started it off by taking the Lord's name in vain.
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That does not mean people in the West risk being imprisoned for taking the Lord's name in vain.
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Taking the Lord's name in vain was wrong and therefore Miss Connolly was wrong to pretend she hadn't heard.
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As you see me saying 'oh my God,' I am not taking the Lord's name in vain, I am beseeching the Lord.
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The bad words were wrong, of course, and taking the Lord's name in vain was wrong, but it was more complicated than that.
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"This is a mockery of taking the Lord's name in vain and also highly offensive to Christians," said the petition, started by a person identifying himself as Ian O'Sullivan.
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And let's face it — American society as a whole is vastly less worried about taking the Lord's name in vain or mentioning copulation and evacuation in public than it once was.
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In North Carolina and across the entire Bible Belt, uttering words like "union" or "strike" is often akin to taking the Lord's name in vain, and Democrats and Republicans alike have worked to undercut organized labor.
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But Latter-day Saints Democrats, a political group most commonly known as L.D.S. Dems, is keeping its logo, a blue circle with "LDS" in the middle, with an extra-large D. "If the name of our page was Democrats from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and we are posting about Wilbur Ross manipulating the census, we feel like that is taking the Lord's name in vain," said the group's national co-chair, Rob Taber, referring to the commerce secretary.
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Corbett also condemned officers and superiors for what he perceived as violations of God's word. In one instance, he verbally reprimanded Colonel Daniel Butterfield for using profanity and taking the Lord's name in vain. He was sent to the guardhouse for several days but refused to apologize for his insubordination. Due to his continued disruptive behavior and refusal to take orders, Corbett was court-martialed and sentenced to be shot.
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This represents the boy's passage into manhood. Irish Catholics of old employed a similar practice, whereby "ejaculations" were used to express frustration without cursing or profaning (taking the Lord's name in vain). This typically involved the recitation of a rhyming couplet, where a shocked person might say, "Jesus who, for love of me / Died on the Cross at Calvary" instead of "Jesus!" This is often abbreviated simply to "Jesus-hoo-fer-luv-a-me", an expression still heard among elderly Irish people.
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As they fly through the moonless night, it becomes apparent that their navigator had been drinking as he steers the canoe on a dangerously unsteady course. While passing over Montreal they just miss running into a church steeple, and soon after the canoe ends up stuck in a deep snowdrift. At this point the drunken navigator begins swearing and taking the Lord's name in vain. Terrified the devil will take their souls, the men bind and gag their friend and elect another to steer.
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"Taking the Lord's name in vain", bad faith justifies actions known to be wrong by claiming a direction from God or religious authority to take unethical positions or untrue beliefs, when a person should know otherwise."Religion and Morality," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, . Commenting on double mindedness in James 1 and its relation to hypocrisy in Matthew 6:22, Jamieson- Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary says "double-minded-literally, 'double-souled', the one soul directed towards God, the other to something else ... It is not a hypocrite that is meant, but a fickle, 'wavering' man, as the context shows". Alford's translation of the Bible uses the ancient Greek literature's "waverer" to express "double minded".
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