Reading Curse Words

[tsth]

I understand being repulsed by our own cursing as a reflection of our soul. But why should we be repulsed by the cursing of someone else? If we are engaging the world for maxium impact our personal offense has to be put aside right? I certainly understand that entertaining ourselves with frequent profanity is wrong.

because:

I try not to expose myself to anything that profanes God. It's one thing to end up around someone who curses, but it's another to partake willingly of entertainment that does this. You wouldn't read something or listen to something that continually spoke of your loved one by using a curse word to describe them, would you?

It's the same for God. We should love Him!

In His Love,

Suzanne

[Grace1479]

I understand being repulsed by our own cursing as a reflection of our soul. But why should we be repulsed by the cursing of someone else? If we are engaging the world for maxium impact our personal offense has to be put aside right? I certainly understand that entertaining ourselves with frequent profanity is wrong.

because:

I try not to expose myself to anything that profanes God. It's one thing to end up around someone who curses, but it's another to partake willingly of entertainment that does this. You wouldn't read something or listen to something that continually spoke of your loved one by using a curse word to describe them, would you?

It's the same for God. We should love Him!

In His Love,

Suzanne

This could'nt be said better.

[pamiam]

DDavid from NC, I like the way you use words and the way your brain comes up with information. I've only been on the boards a few months, beginning when we spent January snowbound in OR, and I feel like a new kid in school trying to figure out who the popular ones are. I don't even know who Ted is. I'm impatient with the black and white thinking I sometimes see and blown away by other posts I read. I appreciate your summary of what I've been seeing.

Anyway, to the topic, reading something that crosses my personal line of decency ends the book for me. Yep, I've been compromised along with the world as to what I tolerate, but try to be an observer in the midst. Just as we had a slew of movies about blood and gore nominated for Best Picture, it's wise of us to watch what has happened to the standard of decency. An appreciation of beauty vs the base things of life fairly well swamping us reflects the disintegration of something valuable in our core and culture. I'm reading the Eckhart Tolle book that Oprah is raving about just because I want to know what he says. Others around me think it is heresy and refuse to read it. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[Guest man]

But why should we be repulsed by the cursing of someone else?

Why should we not?

If we are engaging the world for maxium impact our personal offense has to be put aside right?

What this says to me is that we should put God on the back burner and enjoy what the world has to offer.

[OneLight]

When it comes to witnessing to the world, then we will come across some people who can't say one sentence without cussing. This is to be expected. I see the Op asking if we should entertain ourself with this language. To me, personally, I will not. Yet, when witnessing, it makes no difference because we are to reach the sick, yes?

[Richard_yaash]

But why should we be repulsed by the cursing of someone else?

Why should we not?

I remember being 'corrected' by a brother of mine for saying sh*t, but being told it was ok to say cr*p, which was his word of choice.

[eric]

Well as the saying goes ....if ya can't stand the heat. get out of the kitchen. It's a conscience thing as far as I'm concerned. If you are reading a book and it is offesive to you, throw it in the trash can. Why read something that is going to make you wince.

If you are reading material that you hide under the couch, when you see the pastor coming up the pathway, chances are you shouldn't be reading it... .....

[pamiam]

My husband plays golf all the time and has a few little phrases to some of the guys who use bad language when they hit a bad shot. He might ask, with humor, if they eat with that dirty mouth? Or he might ask if they bother to thank God when they hit a good shot since they seem to use his name when they hit a bad one! He's so good at using humor to get a point across. It has certainly changed some of the guy's language, at least when they play with him.

[~pearl]

With me it's not necessarily curse words that bother me, it's when our Lord's name is used in vain. I just cringe and I want to hide as if I had been the one to say it.

[Treasure]

For years I didn't read any novels that weren't Christian. I've read a few books recently that aren't necessarily Christian but don't hinder my walk. I still don't read romance novels. My conviction isn't in what I read but in music. I don't listen to anything that isn't Christian because other music is unsettling to my spirit. Things like this are matters of personal conviction though, imo.