okay it being easter and all i want to ask this question even though i think its in the wrong thread but i cant find the religious one so here it goes

when people are mad at you and screaming
some scream
"jesus H christ"

what does the H stand for???

middle name lol

It's just so Mary could yell at him using his full name when he was in trouble

which is?

oh great now I have to think about this one all day too

hollyhocks

It stands for Harold

HOLY,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,




?

Julio americans spell it with an H

that would actually make some scence

According to Wikipedia:

Jesus H. Christ is an example of slang serving as a mild profanity. The expression can be used in an angry, wry, sarcastic, cynical, exasperated, or even joking tone. Some Christians regard the expression as blasphemy based on an interpretation of the third commandment.[citation needed] The expression implies that the Christ is a surname rather than a title (Christ comes from the Greek christos meaning"anointed.")

The expression dates to at least the late 19th cen
tury (although according to Mark Twain it was already old in 1850[citation needed]), and likely originates with the ancient Christian three-letter symbolism IHS (the Christogram).

Using the name of Jesus Christ as an oath has been common for many centuries, but the precise origins of the letter H in the expression Jesus H. Christ are obscure. While many explanations have been proposed, some serious and many humorous, the most widely accepted derivation is from the divine monogram of Christian symbolism. The symbol, derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus (Ιησούς), is transliterated IHS, IHC, JHS or JHC. Since the transliteration IHS gave rise to the backronym Iesus Hominum Salvator (Latin for "Jesus savior of men"), it is plausible that JHC similarly led to Jesus H. Christ.

One factor in the transmutation of the monogram into the expression Jesus H. Christ may be that when the first syllable of Jesus Christ is strongly emphasised (as some speakers of English may do when cursing), the rhythm suggests a missing middle syllable between Jesus and Christ. The H may have been adopted from the monogram to fill this gap.

The phrase Jesus H. Christ has been extended in many cases, both as a colloquialism, and in its use in television and film. For example, in the film The Blues Brothers, the character Jake exclaims, "Yes! Yes! Jesus H. tap-dancing Christ, I have seen the light!" in a moment of fervor. In Steven Spielberg’s classic film Jaws, war veteran turned fisherman Quint frequently utters the phrase during the movie, usually in moments of frustration.

Another usage of the term implies that the H is an abbreviation for the name Harold, a play on words from the Lord's Prayer (the "Our Father") as if Harold were the name of Jesus’ Father: "Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name …"; thus, Harold is taken to be Jesus’ middle name.

"Jesus H. Christ on a raft" can sometimes be heard from people from Newfoundland and other Atlantic provinces of Canada. This may be a reference to Christ's walk on water. Or perhaps this variant combines the exclamation with the (archaic) cafe slang term "Adam and Eve on a raft", which described two boiled eggs served on toast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_H._Christ


Everything you wanted to know and didnt even care to know, about the Jesus H Christ

and see i always thought this but thought it was i joke


guess not thanks bobby
glad to know i wasnt the only one who didnt know though

ehh dont care to know the rest just that but thankyou any way

holy