Although I didn’t use it, the temptation was certainly there. Toward the end of the summer that word would pop into my mind when I was startled or angry. But after a couple of weeks I became accustomed to hearing it, and it didn’t repulse me as much. While working in a foundry one summer as a student in Bible college I was appalled every time I heard one particularly offensive four letter word. The tongue is directly involved in the sins of profanity, bigotry, boasting, criticism, complaining, slander, gossip, lies, coarse joking, blasphemy, sarcasm-the list goes on! To tame the tongue is a tough challenge for us since we live in a world of awful verbal pollution. The book of James has a great deal to say about the importance of controlling the tongue. If we don’t resort to profanity, even though we don’t make an issue of it, others notice and we eventually gain credibility and a right to be heard. Today it’s, “Speaking from the heart.” We probably can’t do much to reverse the trend but as followers of Christ we do have a golden opportunity to be distinctive in the way we speak. I was told in high school that the use of profanity was an indication of a poor vocabulary. While it’s considered hate speech to use racial or gender slurs, the use of the name of God or Jesus in vain is dismissed with a shrug. To me, it’s another sign of the moral decay that is eroding the foundation of our country.
Really? Is it not possible to speak from the heart without using the f bomb or resorting to gross profanity? While I’m thankful for the unified and determined spirit that is evident in Boston, I’m disappointed in the vulgarity that has become commonplace in movies, rap music, literature and everyday conversation.Īnyone who attends a college football game, drives in heavy traffic or sits in a college classroom is aware of the increase in profanity that has somehow become totally acceptable in America. Genachowsk later stated that the FCC would not censure Ortiz because after all, “He was speaking from the heart.” A few hours later David Ortiz got a supportive tweet from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski.
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