vulgar
people i respect have been causing me to re-think how and why we use certain words. (see previous post about agnosticism, for instance. when someone says “agnostic” today, it’s not it’s original meaning.)
i’ve wondered since i was a kid why some words were “bad” and some weren’t. take “shit” for instance. who decided “shit” would be the “bad word”, and “shoot” would be okay? and why in the world do i have to adhere to that? a word is a word. just because you say it doesn’t make it bad. i can tell someone “you’re the shit!” and that’s quite a compliment. if i say “you look like shit”, well, that’s not. it’s quite often about context. either way, i’ve always wondered how words become “bad” or “good”, and who gets to decide that.
another word that is often used incorrectly or out of context is the word “vulgar”. this was brought to my mind upon reading an article that a friend posted on twitter called “vulgar christianity”. the article itself is very interesting, as well as the comments.
take a read…
