Cursing Christians

[dolfan]

They're supposed to cuss.

That doesn't make it right or wrong, but the job is to assert and exercise authority, and the means of doing it may require cussing. The end, in this case at least, justifies the means.

[Brenda]

If God can help one person quit cussing why doesn't He help the rest?

I agree.
I think expletive words are used from habit. You pick up the habit by being around people who use them. It becomes part of the conversation.

When I first got saved..everytime I'd say a swear word or what we call a by word (I was never one to use God's name in vane) that I knew as a Christian I shouldn't use, I'd say forgive me Lord and help me not to say it again.
I'd use it several times after and each time, I'd ask the Lord to forgive me and to help me.
It finally got to where, I wasn't saying them.. then I realized God had taken it from me. Then I'd say, Thank You Jesus!

[Jennifer Smith]

I don't cuss but I do drop some by-words quite often. Me and Danny use by-words like Christian Sailors.

Now, that's funny.

What are by-words?

[MrDanger]

Saying dang instead of the other d word, shoot instead of the other s word, freakin instead of the other f word, quintessential instead of the other q word, heck instead of the other h word, etc

[Ilovebigcats]

I don't cuss but I do drop some by-words quite often. Me and Danny use by-words like Christian Sailors.

Now, that's funny.

What are by-words?

An often-used word or phrase is the technical definition.
Examples:
Dang, shoot, crap, darn, dadgummit, heck, stinkin, freakin, bull honkey, etc...

[teach]

quintessential instead of the other q word,

I thought I was the only person who said that!

wendy k

[Dr. Ron]

Okay, now you've gone and done it.....

You were doing okay until you decided that "stinkin" was a cuss word.....
Now I gotta go pray through......dang it!

[MrDanger]

Two years ago, a camper posted online that the senior camp in TN was the "Best Freakin Camp Ever". I loved it and still hold it as a high compliment. Not everyone has seen it that way.

[Dr. Ron]

Dave Ramsey uses the word "freakin" all the time on his radio show. It is kinda funny to me.

I think all language is germaine to the culture and to the situation.
I have clients who come in my office and try to "throw me off my game" by using some pretty rough language.... I don't condemn them....nor do I correct them. I act as though it is part of their ordinary existance....which it usually is.....

I have several who attend Celebrate Recovery and we contend with their language all the time.

Most follks just need to get over it.....be who you are and if you don't cuss dont' start. If you don't smoke, don't start ......and so on.....

[Ilovebigcats]

Dave Ramsey uses the word "freakin" all the time on his radio show. It is kinda funny to me.

I think all language is germaine to the culture and to the situation.
I have clients who come in my office and try to "throw me off my game" by using some pretty rough language.... I don't condemn them....nor do I correct them. I act as though it is part of their ordinary existance....which it usually is.....

I have several who attend Celebrate Recovery and we contend with their language all the time.

Most follks just need to get over it.....be who you are and if you don't cuss dont' start. If you don't smoke, don't start ......and so on.....

My pastor encourages me to cuss him out instead of Danny.

[pastorables]

My father-in-law (deceased), upon hitting his hand with a hammer, would shout something such as, "thank you Lord that I didn't knock it off". See, we don't even have to use by-words.

pa

[one love]

They're supposed to cuss.

That doesn't make it right or wrong, but the job is to assert and exercise authority, and the means of doing it may require cussing. The end, in this case at least, justifies the means.

You can exercise authority without cursing. That would also apply to police and they have no need to curse to do there job. I know someone who is in the jail system and they dont curse at all. Sounds like an exuse not truth.

[dolfan]

IF (and, I'm assuming in my response that the premise is true that the cussing is needed) the profanity is so much a part of the warp and woof of prison life (and I know it to be) that to avoid it conveys weakness, you better find a way to let one go now and then. I know a guy who is an assistant warden in Tennessee in a prison. He's big, deep voiced, black guy, who exudes authority. He's a pastor, preacher here in Alabama, where he lives. He also cusses when he's pressed, and I never think anything of it because I assume it is part of the job and he carries that with him. It is who he is, not just what he does, and I think grace covers over that otherwise morally neutral behavior.

[one love]

I could care less what they do it does not bother me Im just saying it is an exuse it is not a neccessity. You may know the warden but have you spent time in jail? I am fortunate to only see a night in city jail which a cake walk. Now the penn is another story and as I said been there to visit and have a realative that is prison guard. But im not going to disagree some feel they must but I do disagree it is a necessity, others do this job without cursing. It is not an opinion but a fact.

[oletimer]

Mt 5:37
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

What ever happen to when you tried to be more like Christ, then to see how close we can be like the world and not feel guilty? Not going to stay around and lession to some one sound like the devil and talk about Christ.