The Foulest of Crass Language: Why Christians Should Avoid the F-Word

Someone once defended the use of the f-word to me, claiming it was just a word of anger. Top reasons why Christians should not use the f-word.

1. It took Christians centuries to get sex off the public streets of Rome into the privacy of the bedroom where it belongs.
2. Likewise, it took Christians centuries to endow sex with meaning beyond mere procreation—to elevate the idea of sex beyond the animalistic notion conveyed in the f-word. Thus, sex is something holy and to be honored even reverenced.
3. The f-word is a crass and profane word that offends the holiness of the gift of sex.
4. Use of the f-word conveys much about a person who uses it. Not only is the user profane, but inarticulate, and conveys to the world that the user has a limited vocabulary.
5. Perhaps the harshest use of the f-word is when it is flung at a person in anger. In such usage, it is an execrative metaphor for the act of rape—the ungodly perversion of the gift of sex. It is a curse formula that conveys a wish that the hated person would experience the utter contempt and horror associated rape. It conveys more than just, “I hate you and want nothing to do with you;” the expression is a maledictive curse, something akin to, “By the power of Isis [or whatever your DEMON is], may my enemy experience the utter helplessness, pain, violation, and horror of violent bodily penetration forever and ever.”