Why are you rude?

[Abaddon_ire]

I didn't create this thread because someone was rude to me.
I just don't understand why it's considered acceptable here to use vile language even if you strongly disagree with your opponents.

I don't understand why so many theists think it's okay to be profoundly rude, so long as they don't use any 'bad words'.

Well that is the problem. "Blasphemy" (a victimless crime) has been expanded from saying bad things about god by the religious to include particular  words the religious dont like for reasons they are unable to explain.

Take the word "fuck", for example. The religious find that word offensive, which is rather odd since A)the word has nothing to do with any god, and B)it is merely a word, and C)it has, as a word, a wide range of usages all with different meanings.

This is, of course, the nature of language. The C word was originally harmless. Somehow it became synonymous with the female pudenda over time. But vagina remains OK.

"nice" was originally a term applied to the village idiot yet now means the exact opposite.

It often this linguistic detail that trips up bible believers. The words used in the bible do not necessarily mean today what they meant in history.