Spiritual rigidity

[CaptainSolo]

This is a question that's sat on the backburner for a time, and perhaps this is the place to discuss it, as a one-one correlation between my AS and this wouldn't surprise me.

When it comes to watching movies, I tend to be very, as others to my dismay put it, "uptight." I notice a lot of other Christians can sit through a couple of PG-13s that I really can't (though they do cap it off at the R rating). Out of all the things that bug me, cussing is usually the worst, probably because I can't really anticipate it and hit fast forward like how you know a sex scene's coming up because things gradually get steamy. Perhaps I'm willing to tolerate a few words, but only a few. In a general sense, I tend to be very aware of the movie's spiritual and moral atmosphere, and the end result is that I haven't seen and don't watch nearly as many movies as even other Christians.

Is anyone else like this? Do you think to some degree this is AS, or something legitimately discerning?

 

[Sabertooth]

For me, it depends on the thrust of the movie. I've been in the military and other employment where there has been a certain amount of cussing. In some stories, it would seem out of place if it wasn't there.

But I really notice if it seems excessive. Out in the real world, I rarely hear GD's or JC's (taking God's Name in vain) as much as I hear vulgarities, which is technically not a sin.

If a movie has way more of the former, it usually turns out to be a deliberate slam and otherwise poorly written. The movie Iceman comes to mind.

That's one reason I gave up writing fiction, because I couldn't bring myself to script characters to cuss, do recreational drugs, are promiscuous or plot heinous crimes.