text: No. To take the Lord's name in vain is when it's used to deceive someone.\n\nHey I don't like hearing it and try to refrain from doing it but just to say "Oh my God", is not what is meant.\n\nExo 20:7  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. \n\nVAIN H7723 שׁו    שׁואo shâv'  shav shawv, shav\nFrom the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjectively), uselessness (as deceptive, objectively; also adverbially in vain): - false (-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.