This is a rant. I admit it. It’s been building for a long time.
Our political scene is so ugly. The attacks just go on and on. And the longer they go on, the more vitriolic they become.
I do not worship at Trump’s feet, but I have to admit that he’s tried very hard to keep his promises. I also don’t know if anyone else could be still standing after the beating he’s taken for over two years now, with every effort being made to remove him.
But that’s not my beef today.
My beef is the lamentable illiteracy of the general public, the ones who are always mouthing off. Whenever they get the chance, they like to yell into a camera. They have a vocabulary of about 25 words. They’re angry without having any deep understanding of why they are so angry. And they express their anger with every other word being some form of the F-Bomb.
Let me show you what I mean. Take that previous paragraph and rewrite it:
My ****beef is the******lamentable ******illiteracy of the *****general *****public!
See what I mean? The F-bomb and all its varieties are so thick that you need an interpreter to figure out what this angry, yelling, cursing person is actually saying.
What are the varieties? Well, two come to mind: Friggin’ and fricken’. I don’t even like to print them. They are not- so -polite substitutes for the F-bomb, used by people who ought to know better. People who would never dream of saying the F-bomb, but who think it’s okay to use the euphemisms, in much the same way that jeeze, golly, gosh, darn, and heck are used instead of God’s name . Somehow we think that if we don’t use the actual word, but a sound-alike substitute, then we’re okay.
The best thing I can say for those who don’t bother with the substitutes is that they are more honest about it.
I rarely watch videos on Facebook because sooner or later someone is going to let filth dribble out of his mouth. And the comments following a news article? Nope, not going there. Aside from the afore-mentioned words, those comments tend to be full of every other epithet that exists out there for expressing anger and contempt.
Every now and then I hear “what the H**l” coming out of President Trump’s mouth, and it makes me sick. He loses dignity and respect when he reverts to street language.
And by the way, I believe that Christians ought to avoid name-calling. I’ve been guilty, but I’m doing my best to avoid it even though there are plenty of people out there who stir up that kind of speech.
Colossians 4:6: Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Just Writing! 
I admit that when I click on a blog post and there is profanity, I close it quickly. I don’t want to read it, as I can hear it in my mind when reading.
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Me too. I hate it so much, partly because once I see it, then I hear it. Have to pray for God to shut it down.
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Same here. In fact, I was just drafting a blog post with that exact sentiment. Then I thought to go see what others are saying on the topic of cussing and I found this.
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I’m glad you found me 🙂 Thanks for your comment.
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Editors and readers these days fuss about over used cliches in writing and speech. In my opinion, four-letter words are the most overused and outdated cliches going, but how else can people demonstrate that they are ROUGH-TOUGH word-slingers?
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If I have to use curse words in order to get published, I may as well just forget it–at least from the secular perspective. I’m not going to lower my personal standards. It’s a good thing there are Christian publishing houses out there that don’t require that sort of thing.
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