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Originally Posted by Rbneader
Ah. I missed that.
I agree it's a concern, but a minor one. There are some books written expressly to be evil (Marquis de Sade comes to mind), but those are pretty rare (Marquis de Sade is the only author who comes to mind). The majority of controversial books can often be managed with appropriate conversations. Kids need to be taught tools for dealing with disagreement and controversial subjects when they're ready. Morals don't mean anything if they're just habit.
It's hard, but so's everything about raising kids.
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Yes. I was, in fact, responding--several times--to comments from
other posters about "cursing being offensive because [they are] Christian," and the post to which Diap referred. I
most certainly never brought religion into this; if you've read the thread, you'll see that I very specifically said that I think religion is, by and large, unrelated to the "profanity" discussion, in any real way, because most of the words being discussed are NOT PROFANE, in any defined way. The other word for "scat," the other words for "sex," and the like, have nothing, whatsoever, to do with what's "profane," because profanity, by definition, is "not holy because unconsecrated, impure or defiled," or "grossly irreverent
toward what is held to be sacred."
I could possibly see my way clear to understand that someone might find "G-d damn you" as profane or "cursing" in the most traditional sense; but saying s--t, instead of SCAT? Saying f--k, instead of sex? What has
that to do with religious beliefs? Hell, I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why they're "cursing" in the first place, or why reading f--- is somehow
better or, for that matter, even DIFFERENT than seeing the word in print, unless one has a method to blindfold one's BRAINS.
AND, because this isn't the P&R forum, I
specifically forbore from commenting on this: "I'm a Christian, and therefore I have to be concerned for my child's soul."
Hitch