The impression I always got as a kid was that "don't take the Lord's name in vain" meant "don't cuss."
I see it more now as "Don't use His name unless you really are serious about it."
What do you thinK?
I see it more now as "Don't use His name unless you really are serious about it."What do you thinK?
But, good my brother,
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede. -Ophelia to Laertes in Hamlet