Comments on: Liquor Me Up With Some Religion Already

By: dewde

dewde — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:27:08 +0000

I agree that the spirit behind an action (intent) is more important than the action at face value. In fact, like I said above to Jay, I can do an equal amount of harm with my rated-G words as I can with my NC-17 ones.

peace|dewde

By: matthew lane

matthew lane — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:30:07 +0000

for the record, i don't think it sucks. i think it's fucking awesome. sorry, monkey fighting awesome. or monday to friday awesome. or maryland farmer awesome. church people love euphemisms, because they mean the same thing in intent, yet don't sound dirty (unclean). i guess this means intent doesn't matter, just the sounds you make with your mouth. therefor, i'm going to try to be as offensive as possible whenever i speak from now on, without using actual profanity. because then i'm expressing the same thing, without having to lose my soul in the process. it's a real win-win situation! or lose if you understand that when i say you look distinguished, i mean old, and healthy, i mean fat. if i said 'fucking distinguished' or "fucking healthy", i would especially mean it, but then you would be offended right off the bat, instead of analyzing the nuance and being offended later by the realization of what i was actually saying. which is, again, that you're old and fat. it's much more preferable that i not offend you to your face, rather than cause you to wrestle with what i might have meant due to your own insecurities. this may even bring me pleasure.

By: matthew lane

matthew lane — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:06:22 +0000

i'm a believer and i *like* to cuss. maybe jesus is not in my heart, a fellow believer might wonder. or maybe we just need to get over petty issues and focus on truly important matters like loving our neighbor. most of my neighbors cuss, as well. i'm not trying to be like my neighbors, but i really do enjoy their company. sometimes it's fun talking to them as a mere mortal human being, instead of a hyper-religious churchgoer blessed with eternal life and an agenda to make everyone and everything holy and clean. for some reason i thought that was jesus' job. in fact, pretty sure he already accomplished it and love would solve 100% of our problems in this world. but, maybe my fellow believers are right, and we should keep talking about whether or not cussing sucks.

By: Chris F.

Chris F. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:05:19 +0000

Fucking vindicated! http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090712/sc_l...

By: mongerOfWar

mongerOfWar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:09:50 +0000

You should totally invite me over more often. I'll gladly teach your daughters to cuss!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:15:45 +0000

Granny's theology is more susinct than most and makes great wisdom. I'm so late in reading this blog, but have enjoyed the dialogue.

By: human3rror

human3rror — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:16:54 +0000

lame.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:21:58 +0000

I have never viewed cursing as a Christian/Non-Christian thing. I see it as a temper/non-temper thing. I guess if you want to tie it back, it goes under self-control? I just know that I was a cussing fool before I had kids, now I try to demonstrate that the more carefully you select your words, the more people "hear" you, but that includes all words. I think that most people curse when they are trying to emphasize something or when angry. That, I don't even notice. I do notice when people have the 'F' word as their go-to adverb – it makes me think they are illiterate or from New Jersey (shout out to Elliot). And I do HATE HATE HATE it when a pastor does it to look cool. It comes off as fake, bogus, sad, pathetic… whatever. I can't explain it, I just hate it. Its like when they try to use cool phrases, so the problem I have isn't with the exact words.

By: MTMTMT

MTMTMT — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:32:48 +0000

I'm with the dude that brought up the stumbling block! I am a believer who struggles with potty mouth. It is something I am convicted about personally so while it may be good for the goose it aint good for the gander and well yeah… if my pastor is a pissin and a suckin away at the pulpit well yeah… it most definitely could cause me to stumble… a little leaven leavens the whole lump!

I'm with Granny too… don't want no one smellin like poo around me if they aint wearin diapers.

By: Adam_S

Adam_S — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:46:13 +0000

When you say that Jesus didn't use the same language I am not sure you are completely correct. The langauge that Jesus used to describe the Pharasees was very strong (our bibles usually tone it down a bit). And because we don't know everything that Jesus said to claim that Jesus never did something can be hard. What we can say is that he didn't sin. So the language that he did use was not sinful. Paul was not without sin, but the langauge that he used in a couple places was also quite strong. As was noted above, he used the rough equivelent of s**t, and told a people that they should cut their balls off if they were going to teach things inappropriately about cirucumcision. My hebrew and greek scholar friends all agree that our bibles are cleaned up versions of what is sometimes there.