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The Problem of Profanity

This is the Thesis of the problem of cursing: The problem with cursing is NOT THE WORDS THEMSELVES, it is the hatred behind the words. Curse words are the verbal manifestation of hatred towards our fellow humans.

Language Warning

Some modern curse words/profanity will be written. This is in order to examine them in context.

Words are words. Why are certain arrangements of syllables and sound frequencies sinful while others are fine?

Break it down to the most simple elements. Are some elements of sound sinful and if so, who gets to decide which ones are evil?

This is the Thesis of the problem of cursing: The problem with cursing is NOT THE WORDS THEMSELVES, it is the hatred behind the words.

Curse words are the verbal manifestation of hatred towards our fellow humans. If love is concern for the well-being of someone else, then hate is indifference or the desire for evil to befall another person.

Curse words are simply that, words that manifests our desire for a curse to befall someone else. Seems obvious.

“F*** That guy” – Manifestation of negative emotion targeted at another human being. That’s all these words are, and they are good for nothing.

That is cursing with regards to mankind, but what about swearing out of frustration?

Most Christian arguments on curse words are weak. Which is why I’m not fully convinced of the sinful nature of words alone or what makes them sinful based on those arguments.

“Don’t say bad words sonny, they are bad” is the way most arguments go. That is a stupid argument. Christians, especially right-leaning conservatives, tend to focus on the words alone, rather than what is behind the words. They are always worried about the symptoms of sin, rarely ever do they track sin to the root.

Yes, taking heroine is bad, but what takes a person so deep into the abyss that they need heroine to begin with? Those are the questions conservatives miss out on. Yes, we are told to not use coarse jesting or language, but who decides what is sinful?

Yes we are not supposed to let any curse come out of our mouth. But how do we know what a curse is? Unfortunately, I don’t see where the Bible explicitly defines that for us. Besides some Old Testament examples where prophets were literally asked to curse people, such as in the case of Balaam.

Yes, we are not supposed to speak idle words, but what in the world is an idle word?

All these questions are difficult to answer, and I am not convinced they can be answered. At least without some level of personal opinion being injected into them. So I will not try to answer them for you.

You can’t say some curses are sinful, and then use some other unknown curse or euphemism that society has not decided is bad and say, “I have not sinned!”. If you are speaking hateful words to a brother then you are manifesting the same hatred towards him that you would if you were using a socially deemed curse word.

You do not have to use curse words to express hatred towards someone else. Speaking in an ungodly way towards a brother, that is the problem. You are manifesting hatred towards the mankind that God wants to be saved, that is the problem. When you use a word or euphemism or alternate curse word, it’s all the same as cursing if the intent behind the word is hatred.

Societal implication

The Christian argument against cursing that claims we align ourselves with the world when we use profanity. When we use profanity, we are in the world and of the world. Instead of in the world but NOT of the world. There is no distinction between us and the world when we curse. This is a problem. We are meant to be odd. Avoiding profanity is exceedingly odd in a modern day society.

Not to mention that profanity is simply socially unsavory. No one wants to be around the guy that swears like a sailor all day. It’s annoying. Don’t give me that nonsense of “Oh I’m a passionate person, I have to curse”. So what? I’m passionate. That doesn’t mean I go around having sex with with every woman I can find to express that “passion”.

When Peter was denying Christ, one of the things he did to show he could not possibly have been a disciple was to curse.

What better way to separate oneself from righteousness in the eyes of others than to use profanity. Cursing is verbal worldliness.

If some words are bad when used in frustration, then all are bad if used in surprise or frustration. It does not matter whether or not society deems them profane. Exclaiming “Rats” upon hearing bad news is just as sinful as exclaiming “Shit”. Maybe these are what constitute “idle words”. Words that are a waste of time. Ones that don’t serve any purpose. Words that are empty and fill nothing are as good as curse words and we will be held accountable for them.

Context Matters

How are words used? What are their context? This seems to be the defining characteristic between a curse word and just a regular word. A preacher states from the pulpit that, “Sin will damn you to hell”. To say that is fine, but to say to an actual person “damn you to hell” is wrong. The logic comes across as shaky. But it seems that the difference here is targeting curse words at another individual rather than making a statement.

*Most popular words society uses:

Fuck – Adj. To have sexual intercourse with

Shit – excrement

Ass – buttocks

Hell – home of the devil and his angels

Damn – to suggest that someone/something be sent to hell

Cunt/twat/Pussy – Vagina

Dick – Penis

Definitely not an exhaustive list, but what do these have in common?

Society has deemed them bad.

People use them to curse each other with.

Why are these words bad? Because society or the Church says so? It’s circular logic. You could argue that some of those are bad based on definition alone, but the others are only bad because of societal implications. I really think that it doesn’t matter what words you use. If you are using them with the intention to curse another man or manifest hate towards him, then you are cursing. Otherwise we can just change letters in these words and they are “okay”, as we have done with euphemisms.

This is the restated point: the problem with curse words is not the words themselves, but the hatred behind the words.

Hateful words targeted towards fellow humans are curse words. The secondary reason is that curse words cause us to be associated with the world, which we are not to be apart of.

At the end of the day, it’s safer to just avoid using these words all together. They are a waste of time, and using them reflects our lack of discipline over our mouth.

“The tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, filled with deadly poison” – James 3:8

Christianity is Unnatural

Have you ever wondered why you don’t want to do what is right? Most of the commands you read in the Bible go against what you want to do, what you naturally desire to do. Why is that? Because Christianity is unnatural.

Maybe you have some Christian principles mastered. It could be that you aren’t tempted to steal or to murder. Maybe you aren’t tempted to drink alcohol or do drugs. Before you go on your merry way thinking you are a good person, you are probably an arrogant gossip machine and chronic liar.

Strength in some areas of spirituality does not mean strength in all areas.

There are Christians principles that are hard for some and easy for others. What is really going on with these more difficult principles such as loving your enemies? Why are you tempted to do wrong?

Temptation is a desire for something, meaning that if you are tempted to steal, it is because you desire to steal. Why does it seem that you are naturally inclined to do what is wrong? Because Christianity itself is unnatural, and that is a good thing.

You’ve heard the saying, “If it was easy, then everyone would be doing it”. The same thing applies to Christianity.

If it was easy – if living a godly life was natural – everyone would be Christians.

If the Christian walk were easy, Jesus would not have said, “Take up your cross and follow me” (Luke 9:23).

Does picking up a cross and carrying it around sound easy? The principle of a strenuous life is right here in scripture. we are not called to live easy lives and as a result we will be heavily tempted to “Throw down the cross” and live how we want to. Which is what so many other people do, they are know as atheists.

I’ve addressed this before, but monogamy is is not natural in animals. Now before you go off trying to say things like “Oh but what about doves and swans? They have one partner for life”, I would urge you to read the very bottom of this article:

Here is an excerpt:

“In fact, David Barash, a psychology professor at the University of Washington, wants to shatter the “myth of monogamy” altogether. He claims that almost every darn reported case of monogamy in the animal kingdom has been proved wrong at some point upon closer inspection, with infidelity by one or both partners in the coupling.”

The sole purpose of mating is to ensure survival of a species, and the best way to ensure survival is to have sex with as many mates as possible.

Monogamy is therefore unnatural, but it is commanded by God. Not only monogamy, but complete abstinence until marriage. Only a complete moron would tell you that abstinence is easy and natural. They likely don’t have a choice in the matter of abstinence (incel).

Ever tried loving your enemies? That doesn’t come naturally for most people. When an “enemy” says something unkind to you or treats you badly, you have a flood of negative emotions toward that person. The emotions themselves are irrelevant, as an individual’s emotional state does not matter in regards to salvation.

So it is natural to have negative emotions towards an enemy, and it is the actions that one takes in response to those emotions that determine whether or not we love our enemies.

Ask any old dude who has been married for fifty years, he will tell you that love is a verb. Love is an action, not a feeling.

Loving enemies is about taking action towards their well-being (This includes not punching them in their annoying faces), not having magical warm and fuzzy feelings about them. Unless you think that Jesus had warm and fuzzy feelings about the Pharisees…

The idea of the id is that it is the part of our conscious mind that seeks pleasure and wants to avoid pain. So when experiencing pain as the result of an enemy treating you badly, the id remembers that painful experience and strongly seeks to avoid that situation again. This is why it is so hard to smile at the person who is always making negative comments about you, because it is unnatural to love our enemies.

Turning the other cheek. I really shouldn’t have to say anything about this one.

If someone hits you, you naturally want to hit them back. That’s nature.

But we weren’t called to be natural, we were called to be above our natural instincts and obey God.

Do you know what faith is? Yeah yeah, we all know faith is “The substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen“. But what is it on a level that we can understand? I have no idea. It can’t be tested in the lab or thrown under the microscope. I can’t see it or touch it or taste it.

In my understanding, the basic concept of faith is that it is what bridges the gap between knowledge and God. If we understood everything in the world, the Bible and about God, then we wouldn’t need faith; but personal knowledge can only get us so far in our understanding before we must turn to faith to cover the remaining distance between God and what we know about the God.

Faith being non-present in the animal kingdom, and not being based our own personal knowledge or understanding must, therefore, be unnatural. And without faith it is impossible to please Him.

Therefore, in order to please God we must be unnatural beings.

It is natural to seek benefits for oneself. It is not natural to humbly submit to a higher authority. Submission to God is not natural, as it is not present in the animal kingdom.

Selfishness is natural, self-sacrifice is not. Christ calls for the latter to be present in us all.

Laws of entropy apply to everything. Just as the universe wears down over time, so does the mind. Without energy input, personal growth stagnates, men become complacent and eventually begin to deteriorate. So maybe at the creation of the earth man had desire to do what is right, and over thousands of years that desire deteriorated, or maybe doing what is right is unnatural.

Perhaps Christianity itself is unnatural.

I say to you that Christianity is definitely unnatural, and that is good. If it was easy, all sorts of losers would be waltzing into heaven. We prove our worth to the Creator by self-denial. We have to do what is unnatural, and what we don’t want in order to obey God. By His commands, God is saying to us “If you love me, you will do what you don’t want to do in order to get to heaven”.

Man is two parts, a duality: one part eternal soul, one part temporary body. The body, the flesh wants what is natural, but the soul is supernatural, meaning it is “Above Nature“, and it seeks to return to God. Animals have no souls therefore they are only flesh, and they do want is natural. They kill each other, steal from each other, and spread their genes excessively. Christianity is unnatural to the physical body, but is compatible with the soul. This is where those internal battles are coming from, bodily desires that are at war with the soul.

“The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” Mark 14:38

“I say then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, so that you do not do the things that you wish” Galatians 5:16-17

So deny yourself, take up the cross, be a physically unnatural person all the days of your life, but be supernatural in your soul.

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The REAL Reason You Do Not Believe in God

“All of a sudden, our inner animal secretly wants God to not exist, because then we can engage in whatever animalistic activities we want with no retribution. It is this desire for no consequences for actions that is the cornerstone of atheism”.

You want all the Sex you can have.

Let us be clear, evolution and the origin of life and matter do not work from the atheistic perspective. It makes no rational sense to believe in macro-evolution, or in the random, unintelligent spontaneous generation of the universe. The atheistic standpoint violates the law of causality and rationality. It also violates the law of biogenesis and the first and second law of thermodynamics.

Spontaneous generation of matter violates the First law of Thermodynamics.
The eternality of Matter violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The generation of life from non-life in the primordial soup violates the law of Biogenesis.
The Big Bang and unintelligent spontaneous generation of life and matter violate the law of causality.
Any conclusion which cannot be warranted by the evidence is irrational. Therefore, atheism and evolution are irrational by definition of the law of rationality.

Atheism is scientifically absurd. Unscientific is a better term for it. Atheists know this, yet they still grasp at straws in a vain attempt to hold on to their beliefs. They do this while pointing the Christians, calling them the irrational ones. Why would any rational person do this?

They want to do what they want. They want to do it when they want. And they want to have no one to answer to for any of the actions that they take.

There has to be some personal motivating factor that pushes individuals to deny the existence of God. There is, and it is called “Sex”.

No Christian will deny that there are many times when they have lapses of faith and they doubt God. Most of the time this is the result of wanting to do your own thing. No one questions their faith because there is a good argument for evolution. Good arguments for evolution can still be refuted.

Usually a questioning of one’s faith is a result of hearing some argument from the atheistic perspective in conjunction with a massive personal temptation to do wrong. All of a sudden, our inner animal secretly wants God to not exist. Because then we can engage in whatever animalistic activities we want with no retribution. It is this desire for no consequences, responsibility and endless pleasure that is the cornerstone of atheism.

Evolution doesn’t make scientific sense, but sex certainly does.

“I want God to not exist because I want to have sex with as many people as I want. And I want to have no one to answer to on account of that sex”

Atheism is absurd, but the desire to self-medicate the sorrows of life with alcohol and cocaine certainly sounds great when we are at our lowest points, don’t they? I can use those drugs and anything else I want if there is no God.

God Commands His children to be sober in mind and body (I Peter 5:8), which is no problem when everything in life is easy. But when depression hits you in the face like a ton of bricks, all of a sudden that “joy in a bottle” begins to look very friendly. And the idea of a God who wants us to walk through the pain of these experiences with nothing to ease that sorrow begins to look much more distasteful.

Back to evolution for a moment: Spontaneous generation of life doesn’t make sense. But when we hate our neighbor (which we do) and want to kill him (which we have definitely been tempted to do or we would not have been commanded NOT to kill each other), it seems like a valid argument. Even though it is highly irrational to want to do so. If our neighbor is not the embodied manifestation of an eternal soul and is only a highly evolved bacterium, then there is nothing wrong with killing him off.

The concept of the Big Bang is stupid, but when you have to get up to go to Church Every single Sunday, the idea looks tempting.

When you are sick and tired of being around other humans, skipping Church sounds nice.

If you have your nagging conscious judging how you feel about other people (“Love thy neighbor, Jim”), and you are sick of the fake, icky “Christians” that pollute the church, it would be so much easier to accept that there is no God and sleep in on Sunday.

We doubt God because we do not desire to do what is right, it is as simple as that. You could hear about spirituality, duality and other new age nonsense with no evidence, but principles are usually very basic. This does make them easy, only simple.

The basic concept is that atheism cannot stand scientifically. Therefore, any and all attempts to prove or maintain atheistic beliefs are actually the misplaced attempts to justify a life full of pleasure, ease, and selfishness. So you want to know the real reason why you don’t believe in God? It’s not because it makes any sense to be an atheist. It’s because you want to do what you want to do when you want to do it, and never have to answer for anything you do in your life.

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