(October 18, 2016 at 1:27 am)Arkilogue Wrote:(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 fuckYeah, but does he say it with feeling? Intention is 9/10's of a curse.). 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.
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Nah... I've never seen him swear in anger or as a standalone exclamation. Just as a joke to amuse us when we were kids really, and kind of a tradition since then. He's very fluffy for want of a better word... I don't think he wants to face the negative realities of the world so is happy living in a sort of Disney cocoon of wilful ignorance. It's hard enough getting him to watch a PG (UK; Parental Guidance) let alone an 18.
