(October 17, 2016 at 5:14 pm)Emjay Wrote: As to why religious people take so much offence at it. Maybe it's a bit of the above... after all I was not long out of Christianity when that occurred... but other than that I don't really know. Somehow swearing in the sense of 'taking the lord's name in vain' seems to have been conflated with any type of swearing. Like the guy in Alien 3 said 'it's alright to say 'shit'... it ain't against god'... when I've said similar to my dad it seems to have come as something of a surprise to him, and gradually his swearing vocabulary has 'improved' (though mainly as a joke, not to be repeated but to be remembered... so far 'piss' and 'crap' but never a shit or a fuck ). So there's that, and I think also the fact that most swearwords have sexual connotations doesn't help for people who have particular hangups about all things sexual... perhaps it's too close for comfort to things they want to keep repressed... or perhaps some sort of fear of 'guilt by association' with god.Yeah, but does he say it with feeling? Intention is 9/10's of a curse.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder