Slang

[etat]

Very eloquently put Duane pretty much what I was thinking, but much better said.

[rebocardo]

> Holy Crap

If you can disbarage God's name by using it for a swear, then anything that follows seems a lot less. The word crap is nothing compared to using the word "Holy" as a swear. After all, crappies are low grade New England pond fish.

Count in a movie or show how many times you hear "Oh my God", "Jesus", etc. used as a swear word.

I have watched the Dave Lettermen or Jay Leno show and counted its use at least 10 times in 15 minutes. Terminator 3,  I never even watched the end of the movie because I could not stand the using of the Lord's name, in various forms, in vain.

If you carefully watch movies, you will see how you are being programmed. Example: The Specialist with Sly.Stallone. The only one in the whole movie wearing a cross (huge one at that so that yuo can not miss it) is the evil mob father that gives thanks to God all the time for the murder of his enemies. Especially at the end of the movie.

I have heard kids in my neighborhood that come from "Christian" homes say "oh my God" over stupid stuff. So, I put it this way to them. How would you feel if everytime someone stepped in dog poop if they picked up the bottom of their foot and said "oh my Rickie".

Slang is the end result of making other worse things acceptable such as using the Lord's name in vain. If you did that 50 years ago in public there would have been a good chance some guy would have boxed your ears. It never would have been acceptable in a TV show or movie, it would have been a career ender and never let past censors.

Now that the Lord's name is brought low, you can hear swear words on TV, cable, movies, and see someone flash their teats at 10s of millions of people and not be punished for it.

[redpowerd]

right on!

i allways wonderd how we became so accustomed to using the Lords name in vain in regular conversation. i wouldnt blame the schools, they only rasied us for 16 years to be diverse and ignore christian values.

[Stan]

I thought the Lord's name was Yaweh, and God was his title. But I'll agree there is way too much bad language. The problem is they weren't taught how to express themselves lucidly.  :-/

[Tom]

Teaching is just part of the equation.  Learning is the other part.

I had an algebra teacher tell us, "I can't bore a hole in your head and pour it in. You have to exhibit some effort in learning it."

[redpowerd]

yep, its just what we do with it.
ive meet some teachers that wanted to bore a hole in MY head, and i think the last thing they wanted to do was pour information in

[Linda]

Rebocardo,

I told a friend of mine once that she shouldn't use the  Lord's name in vain (after she said,"Oh my God for some trivial thing).  She replied, I didn't use His name in vain, because I didn't say *DanG it with His name.  I asked her if she knew that vain meant "for no good purpose."  I suppose a lot of people don't understand the difference.

[EZ]

I might cuss alittle if I get mad but I wont take the Lords name in vain, even when I was drinking I wouldnt say it.
EZ