Why do Christians hate swearing in music?

[Danhalen]

Why do Christians hate swearing in music?

for the same reason you paint christians with such a broad brush. i think you need to stop and think about what you say, before you say it. most of the people in this country consider themselves christians. i would venture to say that most of the people that record music with curse words consider themselves christian. it's not a matter of christians disliking swearing. it's a matter of people that feel they have better things to listen to, regardless of their religious convictions.

 

[Norseman]

Swearing I can live with. Swearing to the extent that the message is rendered meaningless I find stupid. I would be just the same if someone wrote a song that used only 10-11 (or fewer!) words and just kept repeating them over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over (read all the way through that and you should catch my drift) again.

 

[philN]

umm... did you even read my post? I think I pretty clearly said that there is a difference between biblical cursing (damning things) and other words that society has deemed unacceptable (ambiguously, also known as cursing). The two words are both called cursing, but have different meanings. I never said that I damn anything; you are presupposing that because I do not take offense to certain words that I therefore use all such words incorrectly. You don't have any support or evidence of this since you don't know me, and your arguement is pretty thin to begin with.

I think that when you are ignorant enough to base your entire belief on something that is clearly an example of logical fallacy (equivocation), that you hinder people from accepting your view rather than showing others that your way is best. Your defense of your view has so far been muddled out-of-context and somewhat irrelevant scripture verse and an unsupported proposition that I am saying bad things and that it is dumb to do so.

I don't want to say that you argument is naive, but so far, you haven't boltstered any evidence to the contrary. Sorry.

 

[Ninja Turtles]

I don't understand people's beef with swearing. Didn't devil, hell, and damn used to be curse words? Times change, the vocabulary will change with it. I think it's funny that there are certain words that have been labelled as the "bad words."

Anyway cursing is more about putting a curse on someone, not the type of language you use. For instance, damining someone to hell. That's cursing, not because of the words, but because of the intent behind the language.

 

[Bevlina]

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