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Jeebus
or Jebus [jee-buh s]
What does Jeebus mean?
Help us, Jeebus!听Jeebus (or Jebus) is a humorous substitute for Jesus, sometimes used to avoid blaspheming, other times to poke fun at believers, and most often just as a playful interjection.
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Where does Jeebus come from?
Like so many cromulent words that have embiggened our language,聽Jeebus owes its popularity to The Simpsons. In an episode from 2000, Homer gets sent to be a Christian missionary. In his typically clueless way, Homer protests “I’m no missionary. I don’t even believe in Jeebus.” He immediately proceeds to plead f辞谤听Jeebus to save him.
Homer can’t take all the credit though.聽In the 1952 novel聽A Cry of Children, one character, trying to watch his language, uses聽Jeebus rather than Jesus so as not to take his god’s name in vain.
Still, use of 闯别别产耻蝉听didn’t really take off until the 2000s after that聽Simpsons episode. In 2002, a writer on the review website聽Television Without Pity聽exasperatedly declaimed “Oh, Jeebus” in response to E.R. star Noah Wyle’s apparently disappointing facial hair. The punk band Random Heroes put out an album titled聽Bigger Than Jeebus in 2004. The exclamation “Sweet Jeebus!” even showed up in a vegan cookbook in 2005. That same year, a Christian writer even noted that the聽Jeebus聽fish, in the style of the ichthys, was showing up on car bumpers.
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Who uses Jeebus?
Like the minced oaths聽箩别别辫别谤蝉听辞谤听geeze, Jeebus can be used in place of聽闯别蝉耻蝉听as a more polite (and less blasphemous) exclamation.
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It can also be used for simple humorous effect. It can make a character look silly or dumb, like Homer鈥攁nd let’s face it, Jeebus聽just sounds funny.
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Sometimes nonbelievers may use聽Jeebus to mock Christians (or at least overzealous ones) as stupid.
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Jebus, incidentally, does show up in the Bible, and no, not as a typo.聽闯别产耻蝉听was the name for the Canaanite city built on Mount Zion which preceded Jerusalem.
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