I for one can understand being respectful and watching what you say depending where you are. They call it locker room talk for a reason. The content makes a difference as well. Sexual innuendos are not acceptable in polite company. What bothers me is a situation that I find myself in all too often. Follow my reason if you will.
I play b-ball at a church. While I play, it is expected to not cuss. Often When I miss a shot or commit a turn over, a cuss word will come out. I am immediately reprimanded and admonished by others around me. Those that obviously don't share my particular view on things. I take it for what it's worth and continue to play. I don't apologize but I try and keep from cussing as best I can. The thing is it's a church and certain speech is not tolerated, nor should it be as it is inappropriate.
However, why is it appropriate for christian to blab their mythology anywhere they wish? Why then is that speech any less a demonstrative insult than calling some one a "motherf*cker"?
I really don't see the difference of say "damnit" when you stub your toe even if it IS in a church and someone saying in a public park "god has blessed us with a beautiful day."
So it is my contention that "god speak" is no less cussing/cursing than any other form of cussing/cursing as for the insulting nature of such speech.
You can walk around wearing a T-shirt with "Jesus Saves" blazoned on it, but just go to the grocery store with a T-shirt that reads "There is no god" and see what happens.
I have a rule that there is no god speak allowed on my property no matter who the person (including my family). It's a hard and fast rule with no exception. The only god speak allowed is in the form of traditional cussing, like "goddamnit!" Or "Jesus H. Christ!"
So what say you my fine feathered friends. How has freedom of speech effected you or your lack of such a cherished freedom. Remember that freedom of speech only applies to the government not restricting your speech and nothing more.
On that note I find it interesting that christians think that they are having they civil rights violated if a private employer does not let them display "god jewelry" at the work place. They say that their right of expression (freedom of speech) is being violated. When clearly it isn't. You have no right to freely express yourself in a private environment ergo me cussing in a church.
So I ask again, what say you?
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I think this quote sums it up quite nicely.
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I do not cuss at work because I care for elderly people and the concern is for their comfort not mine. However , I had the pleasure of caring for an older biker / moonshiner covered in tattoos in his last years. When I was alone with him I got to say things like "What the fuck is up , M ?"
Last week my associates were having lunch in my office and we had a conversation about cussing. They were whining how they try not to , and they will try harder and wa wa wa... I told them the only reason I did not cuss at work was the older folks. Outside work I cuss freely. I explained that cussing is verbal salt. I sprinkle it as a seasoning on all my thoughts and speech.
The best blasphemous cuss phrase I have heard lately is "Jesus H. Tap Dancing Christ".
There are two points of difference: Intent and grammar.
One, "God bless you" conveys meaning, is deliberate speech and good grammar. That is entirely different to expletives issued due to lack of control. It isn't a matter of repressing emotion but of learning to express it without harm to the spirit of the meeting. The less control is attempted the less is attained which has nothing to do with religion.
Bad language isn't a matter of cussing. There is nothing wrong with saying fuck, bugger or damn in context and where it isn't redundant.
The important thing is intent. It is fine to communicate something using good grammar, but bad language consists of redundant or INTENTIONALLY offensive speech, (i.e. where someone's principle objective is to offend someone else). Someone may find "God bless you" offensive, but whether they are right to do so is far more a matter of opinion than whether something is bad language or poor grammar.
Generally speaking, the better the grammar and the less relief using spontaneous outburst the better.
I disagree. I don't want to be insulted no matter how well the grammar is manipulated. People who use "god speak" do so to infer their superiority and for no other reason. I don't know how many times someone has said to me, "I'll pray for you." The grammar may be correct, but the insult and condescension is apparent. However, if I have smashed my thumb with a hammer by accident, and scream "holy fuck" it isn't an insult to anyone. I don't want to be admonished for doing so. Again the act of admonishing me for my chosen language in such a situation is again condescending and arrogant. Clearly the theist have gotten away with their condescending insults for so long, that it is just accepted. I for one don't accept it. I don't accept being "corrected" or having to hear "god speak". Both are just flat out insults and attempts at superiority.
Indeed. Though, what better way to respond to an insult, than to give one of your own. I have heard and/or read many different responses of this type, my favorite of which is "Please, save the superiority speach for other members of your insane imaginary friend cult."
I adore the word "fuck". It is ever so cathartic to say...repeatedly. It is appropriate in so very many situations. I use a lot of language that others think is not nice.
That being said....I do not use it in front of my grandsons because their parents have asked me not to. I respect their parental rules because their rules are not damaging. I don't use it frequently at work or in public (at least not really loud) because I respect others' fragile ears. I am sensitive to others sensitivities.
But I think less of someone who is terribly disturbed by that which they describe as "bad language." I think they are wimps. I think they implode on a regular basis simply because they are too righteous to expunge the bullshit by calling it just that.
They are just words.
Too many people are willing to fuss about a fucking word but not about injustice, poverty, inequality, or anything else that causes substantive damage. Words...they fuss about words. Sigh.
On today's episode of : The Keeper of The Politically Correct Language's Version of Historical Events: Sometime in Egypt's history (because being any more specific than that would risk political incorrectness) An outsider has an audience with King Tut (because it's politically incorrect to use actual names) 5 minutes in, the outsider says "damn". Instantly, because of the use of such politically incorrect language, King Tut dies of a heart attack. The outsider is executed for killing King Tut with a " curse" word. The End. Tomorrow: How the Word Fuck Caused the Holocaust. This show brought to you in part by: The Trump Campaign, and Ken Hams Ark Encounter.