Swearing

[JesuXPIPassio]

In terms of morality, is it bad to swear using explitives?

Culture suggests that it’s immoral, but I find nothing about it in the Catechism.

 

[Benedictus]

In terms of morality, is it bad to swear using explitives?

Oh ****, I hope not.

 

[Neo_Canaan]

In terms of morality, is it bad to swear using explitives?

Culture suggests that it’s immoral, but I find nothing about it in the Catechism.

YUP!! What’s worse is that my family swears A LOT, ad I cannot stand it when they do that.

 

[LCMS_No_More]

Since I enjoy a certain show that appears Friday evenings on the SciFi channel, I have taken up the bad habit of substituting a certain expletive for another word that means the the same thing but is made up. I really need to stop because I sound like a geek when I do it (which I am…a geek ).

 

[Prayer_Warrior]

Hate to break it to you but look what the Bible says:

Col 3:8

But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.

Eph 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.

I used to have a pretty bad “potty-mouth” but in light of these scriptures I felt I needed to clean up my language. It takes a lot of work, once you are in the habit!

 

[jmcrae]

In terms of morality, is it bad to swear using explitives?

Culture suggests that it’s immoral, but I find nothing about it in the Catechism.

It may or may not be immoral, but it is a poor use of language, and sounds completely idiotic and/or funny when you understand the meaning of those words.

The best rule to follow is to use the words that actually say what you mean, rather than using the names of private body functions to express anger, or whatever.

If what you really mean to say is “Wow, I am really very annoyed right now,” then that’s exactly what you ought to say.

 

[LittleRose]

We’re supposed to show our love for our fellow man, which probably means we ought to be polite…

Probably means we should use polite words, whenever possible.

The hard part is remembering that when we’re angry.

Thank God for forgiveness.

 

[Neo_Canaan]

We’re supposed to show our love for our fellow man, which probably means we ought to be polite…

Probably means we should use polite words, whenever possible.

The hard part is remembering that when we’re angry.

Thank God for forgiveness.

Let’s not forget our fellow woman too.

 

[Kevin42]

I do not know if it is a sin or not, but the Bible seems to make it clear that the tongue/mouth of the wise certainly would not use foul language such as cussing. Many of the Proverbs speak of the mouth of the wise and just being a “fountain of life”, “like choice silver”, and so on. Therefore, whether cussing is a sin or not, to me it seems clear (especially in Proverbs 10-13) that it is not something that wise and just people do. If you cannot say anything of value, better not to speak seems to be the general idea .

 

[Neo_Canaan]

When any of my family swears, I sing the following in a sea chantey way: “Oh watch out me trigger, she’s a proper jubei jube/on a passage from the Donner Banks/to great grimsby.”

 

[ALLFORHIM]

Hi,

Besides the fact that it is not pleasing to God’s ears it is a bad example to our children or nieces and nephews etc. My husband’s family is horrible about swearing. We have asked them to be careful in front of the kids. They dont, so we have to tell the kids that it is inappropriate language and to never repeat what their uncles say.

Sadly, I have a neighbor that every other word out of his mouth is the “F” in front of his own children as well as mine. He knows where I stand and tries to clean up his act when Im around. Not as much as I would like though. Guess what!!! Their kids are starting to swear—isnt that shocking

IMHO people who swear like that really sound uneducated. I tell my children swearing makes you sound stupid because there are so many other adjectives in the english language that can be used instead.

Just my :twocents:

 

[wabrams]

Since I enjoy a certain show that appears Friday evenings on the SciFi channel, I have taken up the bad habit of substituting a certain expletive for another word that means the the same thing but is made up. I really need to stop because I sound like a geek when I do it (which I am…a geek ).

Don’t tell me your a Battlestar Galactica fan?

 

[Joysong]

Sirach 23
13. Let not yor mouth become used to coarse talk, for in it lies sinful matter.
15. A man who has the habit of abusive language will never mature in character as long as he lives.

 

[deb1]

It may or may not be immoral, but it is a poor use of language, and sounds completely idiotic and/or funny when you understand the meaning of those words.

I used to have a female friend who often said ‘fckng’. I used to complain that it sounded stupid to say my “fckng pencil broke,” as what she was literally saying was that ‘while my pencil engaged in sex it broke.’ Which is, of course, ridiculous.

My reasoning never persuaded her to stop using the word, though. I did threaten to buy her thesaurus so that she could learn some better adjectives.

I must be sexist. WHen a woman curses it always sounds so much worse to me then when a man curses.

 

[AquinaSavio]

In terms of morality, is it bad to swear using explitives?

Culture suggests that it’s immoral, but I find nothing about it in the Catechism.

Fr. Laux, in his book Catholic Morality, has this to say:

Acts by which God is positively dishonored are:
a) Blasphemy, or the emplyment of language (gestures or actions) dishonoring to God. It implies a conscious and intentional use of language which the speaker knows to be injurious to God. So called “profane swearing,” culpable as it may be, is not blalsphemy, because the intentional contempt of God is not there…

c) Profanity, or speaking of what is sacred without due reverence, is more or less serious according a the profane words are, or are not, spoken out of deliberate contempt of what is sacred.

[Emphasis not added]

So, if profanity doesn’t insult the dignity of God or another it is not an officially recognized sin. However, the anger, lack of charity, and scandal that often accompany profanity are probably sinful. Therefore, it is best to avoid such habits.

 

[deb1]

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My hubby worked with a woman who cursed in front of her young child often. She related to us that her child’s teacher had complained that the boy cursed often in preschool. The teacher’s attempts to clean up the boy’s language seemed to irritate the mother. One time, when the mother picked up her son, the teacher said to the boy,“Now, we aren’t going to say certain words anymore are we.” The little boy responded with. “You mean like…” and spat out a whole slew of very offensive curse words. The mother thought that the teacher’s shocked reaction was hilarious. I thought that the mother had some serious mental problems to find her child’s vile language amusing.

I don’t think that cursing is immoral but I do find it offensive and just dumb.

 

[jmcrae]

I used to have a female friend who often said ‘fckng’. I used to complain that it sounded stupid to say my “fckng pencil broke,” as what she was literally saying was that ‘while my pencil engaged in sex it broke.’ Which is, of course, ridiculous.

My mother has reached the age where it is very effective for her to gasp, put her hand over her heart, look intently at the person, and, just as they start to apologize to this sweet little old lady for the foul language, she interrupts and says, “You were having sex with your pencil?”

 

[CRW]

Hate to break it to you but look what the Bible says:

Col 3:8

But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.

Eph 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.

I used to have a pretty bad “potty-mouth” but in light of these scriptures I felt I needed to clean up my language. It takes a lot of work, once you are in the habit!

I once slip with the SH** word; a nice lady informed me immediately; you have something on your tongue that I would not want on my foot. It made an immediate impact. Additionally, who can disagree with scriptures?

 

[AquinaSavio]

One way to think about foul language is this:

Our tongue is a very powerful organ. With it, one can comfort or intimidate; counsel or scandalize; show wisdom or foolishness; love or hate; create peace or make war.

The tongue is the organ by which we receive the most sacred Body and Blood of our Savior and God. Let us never abuse it in such a way that it would be unfit to touch the Holy Eucharist.

 

[LCMS_No_More]

Don’t tell me your a Battlestar Galactica fan?

Yep. I’m sure you know what the word is, then.