‘Go Ahead and Use Some Profanity’

[421 words] Several years ago a friend of mine was being transported by ambulance for treatment at an emergency room. He was suffering with intense pain. One of the attendants on the ambulance, as he sensed my friend’s discomfort, suggested to him, “Go ahead and use some profanity.” He assured my friend this would make him feel better. Today’s society is more accepting of profanity than perhaps ever before. It has not been many years ago that honorable men would refrain from using crude language in the presence of women. Now both men and women freely use profane and filthy language, even in public. We find in the Scriptures many warnings relative to the danger of inappropriate language (cursing, profanity, etc.). The following is a sampling: • “It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person”…