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Well, "In vain" means to do something without success, so of course conservatives of all ilks think it's fine to do, as long as they're winning.
No that's giving them way too much credit, they're just empathy free parasites sucking all the sustenance they can.
The way the word is used in Hebrew isn’t that meaning of vain. It is vain in the sense of “vanity.” Emptiness of speech, lying, etc.
Martin Luther interprets the commandment thusly:
And I think lying and deceiving very much encompasses the way the “Christian” Nationalists manipulate the religious.
This is what I get for trying to reproduce conservative brain thoughts without an explicit tag. I blame myself. (I was raised old school Catholic and know this but it's basically deep lore for anyone unfamiliar, so thank you for adding that context. I love that people on Lemmy do this FAR more often than ever happened on that other site.)
This. The word used in the original Hebrew is "shav" (שוא) - which can mean either "vain" or "false" - and the original meaning of the commandant is to not swear in God's name on something that's not true. Of course, the religious leadership immediately thought "well, we're obviously not going to refrain from lying, and refusing to invoke God's name just because we're lying is going to make it suspicious, so let's just say we are not supposed to invoke his name at all"