Saint Angel 07
The_Mortician
Saint Angel 07

I took out a swear word
I hardly think thats terrible
profanity is against the rules of the guild anyway

Wich is why athiests hate us.

Why because we dont like swearing?
Is the F-bomb really that important to people?
It is against the rules that they commit to when posting in the guild
I just want it to be as clean as we can keep it.
Why is that so terrible?

A word has no power until you give it power. Logically, there is no reason why any vibration in the air, or combination of letters, should be any worse than any other. However, when you say, "you can't say THAT word here", you imply that "That word is too unspeakably horrible to use in a Christian guild". You GIVE that word power over us, and anything other than God that holds power over us is terrible.
For that matter, why is the word f--- inherently dirty? What makes its use as a means of self-expression verboten? Even if we decide that "profaning", in the biblical sense, refers to so-called "curse words", who gets to decide why one word is acceptable and another isn't? Why is f--- wrong and copulate acceptable? What makes the word bum so much "cleaner" than a**? Did someone at some point take a wad of literary toilet paper to it?
How about terms of hatred? Have you noticed how often people use the words f**, dyke, ******, k**e, s**c, w*****k, and the like in Christian guilds ? (f** especially. I've seen guild captains use it.) How about the more generic insults like idiot, loser, stupid, geek, freak, or retard?
Body parts. C---, c---, d**k, c---, boobs, trunk, a**. These words are funny because they actually came about as a means to get AROUND censorship. (Some of them.)
So... Why do we only ban those six "bad" words? (In alphabetical order; a**, b***h, damn, f---, hell, s**t.) Surely you can tell us EXACTLY what makes them so much worse than other words in the English language.
=D Oh, and since I've turned this into a debate on swear words, they're allowed in the context of the debate.