{"id":20,"date":"2009-03-26T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-20T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:27:46","slug":"swearing-people-are-verbally-farting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2009\/03\/swearing-people-are-verbally-farting\/","title":{"rendered":"Swearing people are verbally farting"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Swearing people are verbally farting, I explain to my children, and one often gets trapped that way, playing free and easy with God\u2019s name, edging into off-colour jokes unbecoming the tongue of a child of the king (Eph. 5:3-14), lost in a vile, scoffing sort of raping with the mouth, because one has not been faithful in undergirding, developing and norming the semantic quality of one\u2019s communication. If one has poor grammar and no mastery of syntax, no colour to his vocabulary, then one has no control, no depth, no persuasive power to his language. So it\u2019s very tempting to bolster one\u2019s weak talk by pulling in dues ex machine exclamations and by violating different social and ethical norms in order to grab attention, trying to load your speech powerfully enough to gain dominating control of the communicating situation. But it is <i>in vain<\/i>, because God\u2019s creational order forbids it. The havoc of hate takes place. Dirty and God-damning talk is terribly destructive. But that is not \u201cstrong language\u201d any more than rape is passionate love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Seerveld, <em>An Obedient Aesthetic Life<\/em>, 54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swearing people are verbally farting, I explain to my children, and one often gets trapped that way, playing free and easy with God\u2019s name, edging into off-colour jokes unbecoming the tongue of a child of the king (Eph. 5:3-14), lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2009\/03\/swearing-people-are-verbally-farting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124,123],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-language","tag-seerveld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}