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?”
I will have to remember that.Holy snikeys, I can’t believe we actually like the same show.
My understanding is that it is a venial sin. Here’s some good scriptures on it:
I totally agree!Hi,
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:
I think that’s going way too far. What do they expect everyone to say?
The holiness church of my childhood referred to these words as by-words and said that it is just as bad as saying the swear. Consider that these same people just might pick up a serpent…I think that’s going way too far. What do they expect everyone to say?
“Oh bananas!”
“Sweeties, this is awful!”
“Pumpkin Pie, I hit my thumb!”
I was told once that such words are substitutes for swear words. So by saying ‘shoot’, a person is really saying sh*t. The problem is that until I was told this, the word shoot to me didn’t have any bad connotations in my brain. It was just a way of expressing surprise.
Coming out of the Reformed tradition myself, I’d have to say that they’re expecting people to speak civilized English and say what they actually mean, or else don’t speak at all.
This can be difficult to do when one is in pain and hopping around with their thumb in their mouth.Coming out of the Reformed tradition myself, I’d have to say that they’re expecting people to speak civilized English and say what they actually mean, or else don’t speak at all.
“Pumpkin Pie, I hit my thumb!” isn’t any less nonsensical than “Gosh, I hit my thumb!”
Why not just say “I’m annoyed that I hit my thumb!” which makes a whole lot more sense - and it’s what you mean to say, anyway.
I would normally just say, “OOWWW, AARGH!!” under those circumstances. (I have also roared incoherently at my computer from time to time.)This can be difficult to do when one is in pain and hopping around with their thumb in their mouth.
But were you thinking bad words at the time? Was that incoherent roar hiding a few curse words trying to break free?
That’s for me to know - you can think whatever you like.But were you thinking bad words at the time? Was that incoherent roar hiding a few curse words trying to break free?
Pardon me for butting in, but here’s my take on it…if something is shaken up and explodes then what comes out is what was inside. For instance, a bottle of pop will spill pop, a bottle of water will spill water. So, as the scripture says that it is “out of the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks” then what comes out is basically what is inside of us. That being said, the cursing is an indication that the person needs to put more of God inside and less of the worldBut were you thinking bad words at the time? Was that incoherent roar hiding a few curse words trying to break free?
Personally, when I hurt myself I usually say something like “O, pain! pain!” or “hot! hot! hot!” and no this is not hiding cursing, I don’t even think those words. Maybe this is a weakness on my part, but when I hear other believers swear it actually hurts my heart.I’d vote in favor of the “by-words” each and every time! My take on it is that the closer we grow to God the less and less things like this become issues for us. In other words, I don’t like swearing because I truly believe it leads a person to be more godless, but I always remind myself that it is not a mortal sin. I always remind myself that, even in Jewish OT tradition, the sacrificial lamb had to be perfect and spotless but not those for whom the sacrifice was offered!!! It is the same relationship today with God, when He looks at me He sees the blood of the Lamb. He sees me as worthy and not as I am.
Once, to my sons amusement, I actually yelled out the words, “Bad words.”Pardon me for butting in, but here’s my take on it…if something is shaken up and explodes then what comes out is what was inside. For instance, a bottle of pop will spill pop, a bottle of water will spill water. So, as the scripture says that it is “out of the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks” then what comes out is basically what is inside of us. That being said, the cursing is an indication that the person needs to put more of God inside and less of the world
I’ve always felt that the slide to the gutter is always a longer trip down for a woman than for a man. I guess I’m still hard-wired to believe that.
My mother worked in a Baptist nursing home for many years and she told some really funny/sad stories about a lot of elderly, very religious people who couldn’t talk any sense whatsoever, but would roam the halls in their wheelchairs cursing everyone they saw and talking very vulgur to everyone around them! You’d have to have been brought up Baptist to understand how scandalous this would be.
