Are you afraid to take the lords name in vain?

No, I already have so its kind of too late. Maybe if I was in a desperate scared situation. Id probably preach to the quires! If I was scared for my life.

Ill admit that.

Do you mean?

Jumping Jehovah.

Or

Christ on a crutch.

Taking God's name in vain has nothing to do with using it as an expletive; it refers to the practice, in times gone by, of swearing an oath "as God is my witness" and then breaking that oath.

My father would quote the Bible's shortest verse any time he got upset. "Jesus wept!" He only one came close to getting hit with lightning. (It actually hit his spur and killed the horse he was riding but he walked away.)

But as for using God's name blasphemously? As one wag put it, "It's a victimless offence."

The Lord of . . . . ?

Lord of the Manor? . . . Maybe, so that I do not lose my job as Head Butler in the Manor of Lord and Lady Grantham.

If you are referring to One of the sets of the "Ten Commandments" then I am no more in fear of using that name in vain, as I am in using Zeus or Odin's name incorrectly either . . .

Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. In her 1969 book On Death and Dying, put forth the model of the 5 stages of death.

One of course is anger.  She made a comment somewhere along the line that it was perfectly fine to be angry at God because God can handle our anger.

Jefferson said that we could handle free speech, not because what was being said had any particular value, but because our system of government was strong enough to handle such expressions of displeasure.

So in a sense, anger at God is a victimless crime insofar as God is hardly a victim because He can obviously easily deal with our anger.

But since God in my creator and my final cause (that for the sake of which a thing is what it is---my alpha and omega), it avails me nothing if I separate myself from Him.

So I fear doing so, not because I fear "punishment," but because doing so tends to hinder (in me) my congruence with the reality that I think exists.

Which name is that? God is a title not a name. Yahweh has been shorted to a tetramgrammaton which is odd because the God in the bible states to proclaim his name throughout the earth Exodus 9:16. So taking his name in vain is pretty hard to do when no one can actually settle on what his name is.

I have a wholesome fear of displeasing God and not a morbid fear. Some people use the terms "God" and "Lord" also "Jesus Christ," simply to add speech, or to substitute for a curse word. I am carefully to avoid such disrespectful  language.