Do Catholics Curse?

Question

I noticed when I asked a question a while back. Catholic Crusader called me a curse word.

You claim to be a Christian, from the "true Church".

Is cursing part of your wonderful doctine?

Or, did that just prove you are only "Pretending" to be a Christian. Perhaps offline you curse like a sailer, and this is all jjust a front for you?

True Church huh?

by the way, i reported him to Yahoo. I usually do not do that, but I felt it warrented in this case.

Yes, I also used to go to Footballs games. I used to drink and curse. Actually, I would go out the entire weekend drinking.

However, now my testimony is not to Curse, I have the Holy Spirit inside of me. I try to set a positive example for children and adults who look up to me.

Yes, occationally I curse on accident. Oops, it slipped out when someone cut me off. That is a reaction.

It is different to post in in a forum in text, that is no accident.

Answer 1

Lol, he blocked me. I don't care for him either.
But he is a "crusader", so you're lucky he didn't chop your head off in the name of Jesus!

Answer 2

Matt7:3 - Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

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I see. Because ONE Catholic you ran into used a curse word, you now pass judgement on all Catholics; acting as if all of them have a profanity disorder?

Do Catholics curse? Some do, some don't. It's that simple.


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Here is another problem. You are presuming the polite Catholics curse like sailors off-line (and maybe some of them do), but the problem here is that you are taking a presumption and regarding it as cold hard fact. Presumption is a sin, you know.


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The Catholic Church? Yes!


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Put another way, you acted upon a feeling of "self-righteousness"


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The act of attending football games, in and of itself, is not sinful. Drinking, when done in moderation, is not sinful.

It's good of you to admit to having sinned in cursing, and that you (I have to presume this to be fair) don't curse like a sailor when you are offline.

However, I would have thought that someone who has worked hard to defeat the temptation to curse would have more sympathy for those who still struggle with cursing.


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No one who has the Holy Spirit inside them actually says it, they show it! You've committed a great "sin" of exposition. If you wish to make a point, don't merely say the point - show it.


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It's a reaction that you have allowed to internalize. You were not born knowing how to curse. You learned it. You chose to curse at the other driver. You have to control your impulses. A curse is a curse whether it is written or spoken, just as a Blessing from Jesus is Gospel Truth whether it was spoken or written.

Matt7:3 - Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Answer 3

... I have some Catholic friends and they do curse.
If you do realize, there are corruption in EVERY church. Men have tried to reach God... but since they're only human, they fall a lot and they always try to reconcile with God over and over again... and get forgiven... and sin again and the cycle continues. *sigh*

That's why I have doubts against the church, but not about God. I feel it's the communion that's lacking... and that very reason made many of my Christian friends drop out of church.

As for me... I still believe in God and all, and know that we are all just too corrupt... some friends of mine in Church act all nice and all, but in school... I know they behave differently. It's just an act. I'm not trying to promote myself or anything like that... but I know I behave the same everywhere... no matter where it'd be (unless I'm acting for class or something) -__-;;;

Whenever I feel like cursing, I don't and I use euphemisms... and guess what? They work ^_^

F-word = chocolate
S-word = gun
B-S = blank shot
@$$ = donkey

... but ... that's not to say I'm perfect...

All have sinned and fallen short in the glory of God.

I guess that guy couldn't help himself when he cursed at you. Perhaps he'll repent... and just forget about that incident :-/

Answer 4

Well, this is certainly an interesting discussion. I have four thoughts on this:
Romans 3:23 - "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God"
Galatians 6:1 - "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted."
Ephesians 4:29 - "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."
Romans 12:14 - ". . . bless, and curse not."

Answer 5

Nobody is perfect. Some peoples faults are just easier to see online. The catholic church does not teach cursing as a way to heaven though. God bless.

Answer 6

I have many Catholic friends who are Eagles fans. They curse a lot during the season.

Answer 7

They must say that the Catholic Church is wrong or else why are they Protestants? Yet they must also admit that not one of their denominations has any right to declare itself to be the one True Church. And that, for the simple reason that Christ did not estab­lish any institution which could be known by men to be His Church.


They are all brought up with that impression and so they continue in religious matters to wander where they will, like people in a forest, who follow any line of tracks without bothering to ask where it leads. And they so love the risky adventure of experi­menting for themselves that they search Scripture for every possible text which they think will support them.


All Christians admit that Christ intended a unity of some kind to prevail amongst His followers. But we cannot deny for ourselves what type of unity must prevail. The "all going the one way" type of unity, whilst each goes his own way, is useless if it be quite foreign to the mind of Christ. Who can accept the in­vention of Protestants who, noting the numberless ways in which they are divided, define the unity re­quired to suit themselves in their present circumstances and in such a way that they may remain where they are.


Those who believed all that He had taught would at least be one in faith. Again, He demanded unity in worship. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism," was to be the rule and baptism belongs to worship. The early Christians were told distinctly by St. Paul that participation in the same Eucharistic worship probably was essential to the unity. "We, being many, are one bread, one body; all that partake of one bread".
In other words, "The one Christ is to be found in Holy Communion, and we, however numerous we may be, are one in Him if we partake of the same Holy Communion."

Protestantism cannot preserve Christian standards in­tact. Articles of faith have gone overboard. Mortifi­cation and fasting are not required. The evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, with their consequent inspiration of monastic life are ig­nored. Protestant writings excuse, and even approve, laxity in moral practice. Protestantism has not pro­duced anything equivalent to the canonized Catholic Saint. Many of the Sacraments of Christ are not even acknowledged by Protestantism, whilst the heart has been torn out of its worship by the loss of Christ's presence in the Blessed Eucharist. Of spiritual author­ity there is scarcely a trace. The very clergy are not trained in moral law, and cannot advise the laity as they should, even were the laity willing to accept ad­vice. The prevalent notion, "Believe on Christ and be saved," tends of its very nature to lessen the sense of necessity of personal virtue.

Protestantism was a movement of heated dissent. Error and rebellion took the first Protestants from the Catholic Church, the various forms of error, or the various countries in which the rebellion occurred, giving rise to the various sects. But any goodness which the first Protestants took as doctrinal baggage with them was derived from the Church they left. And any apparent goodness in the teachings of Protestant­ism is still to be found in the Catholic Church. Where, in the Catholic Church, cockle sown by the enemy is found here and there amidst the wheat, Satan was wise enough to allow some wheat here and there to remain amidst the cockle of Protestantism. And it is the presence of this wheat which accounts for the con­tinued existence of Protestantism. But the wheat does not really belong to Protestantism. It is a relic of Catholicism growing in alien soil. A Catholic is good when he lives up to Catholic principles, refusing to depart from them. A Protestant is good when he unconsciously acts on Catholic principles, departing from those which are purely Protestant.

Answer 8

Sure. Some do.

So by your logic, if even one member of a denomination curses or uses bad language, then that whole church isn't true?

I guess there are NO true churches on the planet, then?

Answer 9

Traditionally, Catholics consider words that malign God to be curses. Those words that refer to bodily activity are not considered curses.

Answer 10

whine, cry, snivel,---you can dish it out but you can't take it?

And just how is that word he called you different than being told you are Hell bound? Would you consider being called a hypocrite cursing too?

Answer 11

Personally, I am not sure if the Bible says anything about cursing per se, but such things are better left to those who are too immature to speak like adults.