In today's episode, I'm going to talk about a growing trend among online Christians that promotes

vulgarity, verbal abuse, and even blasphemy.

I showed and even uttered this vulgarity in the original episode I recorded, but I realized

that was as imprudent as showing pornography in order to fight pornography.

So here is an edited version of that episode to better serve you.

God bless.

Lately, I've been seeing more and more self-professed Christians use profane, abusive,

and even blasphemous language on the internet. And it needs to stop.

With that said, I want to be clear that the church does not have a teaching on specific curse words.

Language changes so much, so it would be extremely difficult for the church

to do something like that. So while the church doesn't teach on specific words, the church does

have teachings on the sinfulness of hateful desires, which these profane words often, but don't

always, but often correlate. So there could be instances where it's licit to use profanity,

maybe to make a rhetorical point. For example, on the Cobre report, Stephen Colbert

informally debated psychologist Willip Zimbardo, and Colbert refuted Zimbardo's claim that God

is the cause of evil. Zimbardo said that Colbert must have done well in Sunday school, to which

Kobe epically responded, I teach Sunday school, mother effer. You could still argue

Cobre shouldn't have been profane, but in the context, he wasn't trying to abuse Zimbardo.

Now, some people may still disagree with the profanity there, but other people might say

profanity is acceptable

in certain contexts as long as it does not become excessive. In fact, that's one of the criticisms

of Mark Wahlberg's film, Father Stu, was that it had an excessive use of profanity. And one could

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