Are you a native English speaker?
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 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"