I’m not religious personally but TGI Fridays is a very popular after-church spot (according to all of the religious/former religious people I asked). Why are none of them mad about this?

How could they actively support a restaurant so sinful it includes a sin in the title?

  • @Turturtley@aussie.zone
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    Thank god! Oh my god! Sweet jesus!

    None of these are considered using the lord’s name in vain.

    God told me that… are evil people and are to be shunned. You must do … because god said so.

    This is what was meant by using gods name in vain. Using god’s name to further their personal agendas. Consider that the next time someone tells you how to think because it’s what god wants.

    • Maven (famous)OP
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      See, I’m not sure about the cutoff point… I’ve heard stories of people getting upset over “God this is so good” after taking a bit of a good meal.

      Like I said, I’m not religious so idk all of the context here… I’m just curious why I’ve never seen any complaints about it at all. Not saying more should be upset, just curious.

      • @FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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        Like religion itself, the reaction to the word is completely made up by the person witnessing it. Your experience will vary but gets progressively more aggressive the further south you get where Sherman should have burned all the way to the sea

      • @Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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        You need more context to answer questions like that tbh. No Christian denomination is like another, so definitely some would find it distasteful to use God’s name outside Church, but most people aren’t like that lol. Most people just speak the same way you and everyone else does.

    • @FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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      That’s what jeebus folk do, rename and rationalize. Aww shucks (shit), darn (damn), oh gosh (goddamnit), fudge (fuck)

      Presumably if you don’t say the actual curse word you and everyone else knows you’re meaning…jeebus will still like you.

  • @starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    Taking the lord’s name in vain isn’t swearing or saying thank God, it’s doing stuff “in the name of the Lord.” Ergo, most so-called Christians in the US take the Lord’s name in vain on a daily basis.

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    Not an answer to your question but in looking it up this killed me…

    “In 1965, Alan Stillman opened the first TGI Fridays restaurant in Manhattan. He lived on 63rd Street between First and York Avenues,[11] in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan near the Queensboro Bridge. He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women.

    Imagine being like “I need to meet women, I’ll open a business.” Lol

    He paid $5000, or $50k in today’s money in Manhattan. JFC… I can’t even imagine what that would actually cost today.

    • @floo@retrolemmy.com
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      Imagine being like “I need to meet women, I’ll open a business.” Lol

      Like Facebook? Lol.

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    When I was in the third grade (in Tennessee), I said “Oh my god,” and a girl said she’d tell the teacher I said a swear word. I didn’t understand and pushed back. She explained the “lord’s name in vain,” and that just wasn’t a thing in our house. I got pretty offended. I’m still offended at that stupid shit.

    Fuck god, hail satan, gimme a beer.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      That’s the kind of thing that should’ve been a teachable moment about separation of church and state.

  • JASN_DE
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    Why are none of them mad about this?

    Because most people are colossal hypocrites.

  • Kate-ay
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    I don’t know about TGI Fridays, but my parents were offended by ABC’s TGIF branding.

  • Skua
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    Other people have already given more useful answers, but this thread is the first time I’ve learned that it’s “Thank God” rather than “Thank Goodness”. It was only an occasional presence in my life when I was a child, my grandmother would sometimes take me and my siblings there. Both her and my mother were faaaaiiiirly devout Catholics and raised us as such, and they called it “Thank Goodness It’s Friday” when they had cause to use the long version

  • @Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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    Is it me or are people thinking more about religion lately? I know I am so I might be biased but some friends and family have brought it up as well despite none of us being religious.

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      My fiancé was raised extremely religious and managed to escape that life. The childhood teaching and consequences of said upbringing are always prevalent for us.

      As for everyone else… The religious far-right has been growing rapidly across the entire globe so I imagine that has at least a part in it.

    • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      I reconnected with some old colleagues recently and they’re both turned religious. One of them already was but it seemed much more intense now, the other seems surprising to me. Very unusual in my circles, I basically never interact with religious people or if I do it’s so superficial it doesn’t come up.

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    Of all the gods that people have ever believed in, ones that are currently believe in and any future gods, I wonder which god they meant? ;)

    • @Waffle@lemm.ee
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      Since Friday is literally Freya’s day, I’d assume they were thanking her.

  • @PunkRockSportsFan
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    Because religion is a set of rules for hypocrites to bind people they don’t like and suggestions for behavior for themselves which can be discarded, as they are only superstitions, not actual laws.

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      Very far from all of them, but indeed too many sects are

      • @PunkRockSportsFan
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        Show me one religion that’s not full of full of shit hypocrisy.

        Show me the one religion that says “hey we figured out the supernatural and here’s the proof”

        Just one is all it would take to prove me wrong.

        The fact is the idea of religion is a fundamental logical fallacy.

        “There are thing beyond our reasoning. Here is how that stuff works”

        Is cockamamie bullshit.

        • @GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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          Not religious myself, but the essence of faith is that you don’t need scientific evidence but take it “on faith”. You trust that your beliefs, or something close to it, are the truth that will be revealed when your material life ends (and if you were devout, you usually get eternal bliss and happiness as a reward).

          • @PunkRockSportsFan
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            the essence of faith is that you don’t need scientific evidence but take it “on faith”. You trust that your beliefs, or something close to it, are the truth that will be revealed when your material life ends

            This is a description of a demented mind.

        • Aatube
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          Faith doesn’t need proof: it’s not logical, meant to be logical, nor applied in science (and nor should it be). That does not mean it’s hypocrisy.

            • Aatube
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              It has to do harm in itself to be an illness. Don’t tell me you don’t have your own little rituals and habits.

              • @PunkRockSportsFan
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                My habits don’t carry a threat from supernatural forces if someone else doesn’t follow them. But you know this.

                You made a bad faith argument in support of religion.

                Which is expected. Because there are no good faith arguments for religion.

                Because there is no way a human could comprehend anything beyond our universe, and pretending you can is just a lie, a hypocritical act that can’t be proven.

                Take your bad faith to church where it belongs.

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                  My habits don’t carry a threat from supernatural forces if someone else doesn’t follow them

                  Well why do you follow it, then? The reasons for that also apply to the reasons for superstitions.

                  You made a bad faith argument

                  I don’t understand how it is bad faith. Assuming something doesn’t have to be logical is no less unmoving than assuming it has to.

                  there is no way a human could comprehend anything beyond our universe, and pretending you can is just a lie

                  I agree. And I simply do not believe any of us can decide whether God exists or not, since that is also a comprehension. That doesn’t mean we can’t decide which comprehension we believe in more, just like we pick and choose the morals we prioritize.

                  pretending you can is just a lie, a hypocritical act

                  Finally, as I’ve said above, “lies” don’t have to be hypocritical.