...either going with one of the meritorious suggestions put forth by the wise posters hereabouts, or else simply telling people who are offended (for whatever reason) to get stuffed. If everyone Bowdlerized their dialogue to the point where no one was offended by anything anyone said, we'd either wind up in Orwell's nightmare, or Kahlil Gibran's paradise, depending on how cynical you're feeling at this moment. Remember that while legitimate offenses are not exactly few and far between, neither are hypersensitive language brownshirts (she said, evading Godwin's Law handily by means of ample vocabulary). Given your usual pattern of discourse, I'd be more worried about the latter than the former, if I were you.
Then again, you could avoid the whole problem by simply not talking about contentious subjects like religion with people whom you don't know well enough to be sure they're not going to rip off your head and barf down your throat over issues of nomenclature. That might be counterproductive, though, and I would recommend the "Get stuffed!" option over it.
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Then again, you could avoid the whole problem by simply not talking about contentious subjects like religion with people whom you don't know well enough to be sure they're not going to rip off your head and barf down your throat over issues of nomenclature. That might be counterproductive, though, and I would recommend the "Get stuffed!" option over it.