My roommate and I got into a discussion, she was saying those words would be okay because you are not swearing. I say that if we should not swear we should not speak at all because even when we make up our own replacement words, those become swear words to us. Maybe not speaking is a big of a far idea, but I used to that show my point :) What do you think? Are replacement words just as bad as the word you replaced?? I keep coming back to this question, I know it is the Lord directing me to it, but yet I cannot seem to come to a final conclusion on it.
Blessings in Christ,
You make a good point Chelsea! I too have worried about that when I say "Oh My Gosh" I know that I am not using the Lord's name in vain but I'm simply replacing what others use with a different word. So you and I are thinking the same. I use some of the phrases you mentioned above & you make such a good point. I try and use words like "Bummer" when I do something disappointing so that its a completely different word. Just my thoughts nothing special :-)
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I feel the same confusion. I'm a little nervous that someone will hear a word (fudge) and think it's something else! I always think, though, that we have to have some way with which to express our frustrations. If we left that bottled up, we know what bad things can come from that. By substituting a "bad" word as defined by society with some other type of declaration word, I don't think it becomes a bad word necessarily in and of itself. What do you think?
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