Quote Originally Posted by KarlXII View Post
The simple matter is that it IS offensive to some people, and should be considered as an offensive word.

If I were to say, "Jeez lobf, you're such a Jew", you and I would not find it as offensive as a Jewish member, just because we are not Jewish doesn't mean we can call people Jews as a derogatory term, just like the fact you're not a Christian doesn't give you an excuse to "take the Lord's name in vain" because some Christians, including I, DO find it offensive and profane.
If I were to say "you're a Jew" as I tried to insult you, it would actually be derogatory in that I'm implying Jews are bad people. I did nothing of the sort.

The guy above me said "God this thread is funny." Why don't you take offense to that?

The fact of the matter is this only offends you if you have a personal bias towards a particular religion. Nobody would say boo if I said "Zeus, you guys are touchy," or "By Buddah you guys are touchy!"

Like Jolt said
Unless its clearly a discriminatory attack on one religion, I hardly see how one can recieve warnings from something religious-related that isn't either scandalous and can't be manipulated to prevent people from saying basically anything.
It wasn't a discriminatory attack. It is a commonly used exclamation and only offensive if you are a particularly anal member of the Christian faith.

In regard to the severity of the warning: I don't know the differences between the warnings. All I know is that I have an "official Infraction." I know that in the future if action is to be taken against me for something else, the powers that be can look back and say "oh, look, we warned you for something already. time to take it to the next step."

I don't want to have a strike against me because I said nothing inherently offensive or derogatory.