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Profanity, vulgarity and me (and you too)

Posted by R. Justin on May 2nd, 2009

I’m a faithful fellow. I don’t blog about it too much, mostly because I’m no theologian or prophet (and because I don’t blog often in general). But I believe in God, and Jesus and his resurrection, all that good stuff. (And it is good stuff.)

Anyway, I haven’t always been a faithful person, nor did I throw off all my pre-Christian habits when I came into the fold. One of those is cursing/swearing/profanity — all of which, in my view, are loaded words. To be sure, my wife Shelley tries to discourage me; generally speaking, I’m not coarse in casual conversation. Truth be told, most of it goes on inside my head, though occasionally it spills onto the page (or the post), and when it does I’m pretty defensive and unapologetic. (more…)