Replace god in this expression by gays, Allah, children, science, music, bits or whatever and you may experience the same feeling I had. And it doesn't provide any useful and constructive information to the main point.
I'm not the OP here, but I'm curious if you've never heard the idiom or the if the idiom just rubs you the wrong way.
> Replace god in this expression by gays, Allah, children, science, music, bits or whatever
That's just it, "for the love of X" doesn't really get a rise out of me for any value of X.
A less common variation of the idiom is "for the love of Mike", which I think points out how arbitrary the object one's affection is in this expression.
> And it doesn't provide any useful and constructive information to the main point.
Without commenting on whether the use was appropriate in this case (frankly I don't have much of an opinion either way), usually that expression is just a way of underscoring the importance of the part that comes after it. For example:
"for the love of x, please stop doing that"
implies more emotion and greater importance than:
"please stop doing that"
I'm not of any strongly polarized culture. I'm just sensitive to respect people of different cultures. Some of them may consider reference to God as offending.
I don't want to give more importance to this than it deserve. This thread is turning Reddit like and reaches the opposite result I wished. I just wanted to draw attention to it and if some people did, than it was worth the loss of the karma points.
Also, there is a hilarious south park episode that delves into this issue. Here's a clip for some yucks: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/230805/science-help-us
That you choose to get "annoyed" about such things is your problem, nobody else's.