MEANINGLESS WORDS?
Subscribe In our daily dealings, we are surrounded by colloquial religious and cultural language that, for the majority of people on both sides of the conversation, is meaningless. Phrases like “Oh my God,” “It’s God’s plan,” “May God bless you,” “May God repay you,” “Peace be upon you,” “Peace,” and many, many other idioms, expressions, and slang like these are continuously thrown into our conversations for all types of reasons. My question to you is: Is this language colloquial language, the result of religion spreading into our normal lives, or both? It seems that there is no activity in our daily personal, and sometimes even professional, life where we are not faced with some of these expressions. They are prevalent in some people’s commonly used language and, definitely, in some cultures. These expressions are just part of their everyday jargon and are used mainly to express surprise, shock, alarm, anger, dismay, annoyance, disbelief, frustration, and/or desperation. They