I've always found it ridiculous that people give so much power to words. I know that it's not just the religious who are opposed to swearing; you can get fined for swearing in public or flagged for doing so on this website. Yet Christians seem to be opposed to it on a moral level.
I understand the that argument Christians don't want to offend people so they avoid specific words that may do so. (Although they manage to offend with other words more often than not.) Beyond that, no where in the Bible does it say "Thou shall not say ****." English didn't even exist back then!
Additionally, Jesus himself had a bit of a potty mouth. In Matthew 23 he called the pharisees "Serpents, brood of vipers!" Calling someone a brood of vipers hardly seems like swearing to us but that's the problem with translation. The Greek word he used was very offensive for the times, would have been the equivalent of calling them "dirty rotten ****" these days. If you're a Christian opposed to swearing, why?
2007-06-15
02:36:01
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