“Here's my reasoning: Imagine that America had a King, where this King could order you to be hung with the snap of a finger if you displeased him.”
Two fingers.
You need two fingers to snap.
“Would you then use his name in vain, knowing that it would upset him, and knowing that he would hear it?”
In vain? In this scenario, he’s real. He’s the real monarch. I would mention King Hypothetical and everyone would know who i was referring to.
Meanwhile, Trump pretends to believe in God and no one bitches that he’s using God’s name in vain… Certainly not God.
“I certainly doubt so.”
That depends. How thin skinned is this king? I mean, he has the power of oral law, but is he that insecure that I can’t say ‘fuck the king’ without upsetting him? He’s that self centered and self important?
And does everyone around me swear with his name? Because that’s the real question. Immersion is a thing. If everyone swears with a term, I’ll probably pick that up. Certainly that’s what happened when I got to Boot Camp.
“So then why do people constantly use God's name in vain as if it is nothing?”
I don’t think your god, or any gods, are real.
Right now, I’m watching evangelicals kneel to Trump as a golden calf and no one’s throwing lightning bolts. Me saying ‘god damned’ at my leaky pipe isn’t at risk until the big shit gets taken care of.
“He knows when people say it,”
That is what omniscient would indicate…
“and He is upset by it,”
How do you know? Or are you a whiny little snowflake, and figure if YOU knew people were calling you a limp-dicked asshole, YOU would send them to Hell?
“because it is great disrespect,”
Ever raise kids? Some disrespect has to be tolerated if you don’t want your kids to be paranoid and psychotic.
“ whether it seems that way to us or not.”
Still don’t see how you would know God’s opinion.
“ Now of course God isn't going to kill us for it, but no man is perfect, so even that one single sin destines us to hell if we do not repent.”
Dude, OTHER PEOPLE’S SIN destines me to Hell. The whole system’s rigged, and you’re okay with it.