Why can you say crap, but not, I don't want to say anymore.

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Essentially Presents.

I've already done a video on the second commandment, which is, thou shalt not take the name of the Lord you God in vain.

I'll just a little recap of that.

We're called not to take the Lord's name in vain.

That means what? That means taking the name of Jesus in vain. I believe it's

saying things like, oh my God, also including the saint, name of the saints, like that kind of

that exclamation of Jesus marrying Joseph even, where it's just like made as, meant kind of as a

throwaway line. You know, I know sometimes people, I mentioned this the other video, I think.

Sometimes people say, well, I didn't take the God's name in vain.

I said it, but I didn't mean it.

Like, that's what in vain means.

Also, a person could use God's name as a curse, right?

They could, I'll give an example, but I will not.

That's always going to be a violation of the Second Commandment.

Well, what about, like, you know, swear words, you know, cuss words that have nothing to do with the Lord's name,

but are, you know, what our culture considers swear words. Again, I have a video on this.

Trent Horn has a great video on this. The words that are cuss words are kind of arbitrary. Those are

more like social mores rather than this always and everywhere, never ever say X, whatever

X is. In fact, I remember I was watching the kids from Harry Potter at one point.

Then when they were little, they talked about, I think with Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter.

He was going on some kind of press junket.

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