1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived:evil communications corrupt good manners.
Growing up,I rarely ever heard a female swear. I would hear fellow classmates swear and I can remember a particularly foul-mouthed boy that was a grade ahead of me in elementary school,but it was very rare to hear a girl swear.
I wish that was true today.
When I am at the store,in fact,I think I hear more women curse than I hear men curse. Worse yet,I am hearing them using four letter words in earshot of their children! What happened?
Television is a part of the problem. I can remember back in the Seventies when a certain curse word was allowed to be used. “All in the Family”was one of the first shows to use that word and it opened the floodgates. There was some protesting done back then,but it did no good. Now the language on TV has gotten worse with the great expanse of cable channels. In our household now we do not have our TV hooked up to anything but a DVD player and a VCR. Not only because of the language on TV,but also the suggestive shows and advertisements.
People today are not thinking about what they are saying. They use the word “hell”like it means nothing. They use the word in their greetings and use it in descriptive terms —and never once thinking about what Hell truly is:a place of eternal torment and everlasting destruction.
Sadly,there are “churches”out there that have “pastors”that now use curse words in their messages that they preach to their congregations! That is horrible! A Christian is not to resemble the world,a true believer in Jesus Christ should be different from the world.
People are constantly taking the Lord’s name in vain. They declare “Oh my G–”and “Thank G–”but they are not really calling out to Him. It is just a meaningless expression and they do not realize that they are taking God’s name in vain. The name of Jesus Christ should not be used as a curse word either! People have no regard for their Creator.