Profane

 

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Pinta mamalikas! Aside from being improper, cursing is considered as something done out of bad manners. But there is a deeper fear one must experience when these invocations of evil will come true.

According to the Tyndale’s Bible Dictionary, a curse refers to an “invocation of evil or injury against one’s enemies. As practiced in the Bible times, cursing was the opposite of blessing and should not be confused with profanity in the modern sense” (Comfort and Elwell, 2001).

Some people simply say that the swearing that they utter are just mere habits. Some even say they are just expressions. But profanity is not cute or cool. Others think that by swearing, it makes them sound tough.

Profanity can be a word, expression, gesture, or other social behavior which is socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rude or vulgar, or desecrating or showing disrespect toward an object of religious veneration.

The apostle Paul wrote to the Christians in Colosse, “But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth” (Colossians 3:8). He also gave this instruction to the church in Rome, “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse” (Romans 12:14).

Whatever reason it may be uttered, profanity stems from upbringing. Children mimic their parents and this might be unprocessed by the adults thinking that it is OK to be rude and disrespectful.

Hamilton (1989) discovered that profanity creates the perception of vulgarity, which in turn leads to the impression of reduced competence, trustworthiness, sociability, pleasantness, and politeness.

So if people do not like you, it has been scientifically studied that it must have been the way you talk. YOU SWEAR, you see.