Christian Self-censorship of Dirty Words

[Sterben]

        Would it be rude for Tim to blurt out "For fuck-sake's, would you please order something and move along?" She does not know what kind of day Tim was having, maybe his girlfriend or boyfriend just broke up with him, or he got a bad grade on a test that he studied for, or he's just really hungry.

Hangry. Tim is hangry.  Tim could also take the Raplie May approach and say "It's obvious your having trouble, let me show you how it's done." But then Tim is a man-splaining shitlord....whatcha gonna do?

    Lol, the Raplie May approach. Has he been trying to lose weight?

[Pat Mustard]

I have committed the sin of dehumanizing people, but not in a sexual sense. I think it's usually men who struggle with that one. 

The way I've dehumanized people in my mind is when I've seen someone who is just super weird looking... like, wearing really weird clothes, having a ton of crazy piercings, weird hair colors, super goth types.... rather than just going on about my day and reminding myself that they are people, I kinda laugh in my head about it or think for a little too long about how weird they are. I've viewed them like pawns in a freak show rather than humans and that is wrong of me.

To covet just means to be jealous/envious of what someone else has and dwelling on the wish that you had that thing instead of them.  I think we've all done that. I'm sure I have.

That all seems like normal human behavior to me. I find nothing amoral in these thoughts. Just another reason why I don't understand christian sin. 

If you tied these thoughts to an action, that would be another story.

Orwell said it best with the Junior Anti Sex League. Making natural and unavoidable sexual thoughts verboten is a great way to cause emotional tension that becomes anger and self-loathing, and also a great way of binding a person to the group through denial of the self.

[SofaKingHigh]

Fuck 'em.

[Alex K]

One day I realized, gosh darn it, the puritans really do believe that words are magic! What the heck!

[Pat Mustard]

I know a Christian who thinks it's a sin.  Not sure why he does.  In fact he won't buy a dictionary because it has bad words in it.

Because he takes his morals from Victorian England. It is that period of time where we get our current list of unaccepable words or phrases. For example the word cunt crops up in Chaucer and even as late as the 1700's it was used in surnames.

[SofaKingHigh]

I know a Christian who thinks it's a sin.  Not sure why he does.  In fact he won't buy a dictionary because it has bad words in it.

Because he takes his morals from Victorian England. It is that period of time where we get our current list of unaccepable words or phrases. For example the word cunt crops up in Chaucer and even as late as the 1700's it was used in surnames.

Victorian England is no place to be taking morals from, including the use of bad language.




Edit to add: It just feels fucking terrible not swearing in this post, like almost cuntingly criminal.

Much fucking better.

[Pat Mustard]

Edit to add:  It just feels fucking terrible not swearing in this post, like almost cuntingly criminal.

Much fucking better.

Fuck and cunt aren't swears, they're just bad language.

"By cunting god, I'm going to fuck that shitty deity upside the head" on the other hand is, because you're invoking god.