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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.
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