Christian Cursing

First, thanks for posting! It's so encouraging to me to see your feedback. Okay, now back to the point. I recently read the following off a Facebook post, and I thought it was pretty interesting. With the permission of the author, I'm posting it for discussion.
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Fucking, Fuck, God, Damn, God Damn, Ass, Shit, Holy Shit, Hell ARE THE SAME AS Freaking, Fudge, Gosh, Darn, Gosh Darn, Butt, Crap/Crud, Holy Crud, Heck AND SO ON

I suppose this is mainly to Christians, or just those curious to read this because of the title.

What makes these words different from each other? Nothing! You can argue it all you want, but really it's nothing except one's a less formal way of talking *they're both non formal ways of talking and looked down upon by higher classes, but one is higher than the other*.
When are people going to realize it's not the words you say, but how you say them that determines the word "profanity". I'm not sure where we got all that wrong because even in the Bible it's made clear that cursing is specifically hurting someone with your words.

**If you'd like me to prove it to you, I shall pick scripture and we can sit down and DISCUSS this... But I have no intentions of arguing with you if you're not going to have an open mind and just be stubborn about it...

Back to what I was saying though... According to the Christian Bible *the only one I've read* saying "You Dummy" is cursing. It is lowering someone's moral, someones standards. It seems that cursing, according to everything the bible says, is hurting someone intentionally... So where did we get substitutes for words that aren't effecting anyone?
If you watch Good Will Hunting, they say those "curse" words almost every other line. But that's how they were raised, that's the language they learned growing up. They're not hurting anyone by saying "Fuck You" when they say it, they're saying what you'd normally say "whatever" or "yeah right". It might seem a bit harsh because everywhere around us we see that those words are "curse words" thus hurtful to society. You're not even allowed to say FUCK on national TV, but FUDGE and FREAK is just fine when using it in the same sense. It's so ridiculous. And why do we stand for it? A bunch of ignorant folks decided to change the meaning of cursing because they weren't please with the phonics of the words...

BTW, this post was caused by me watching the NIGER South Park Episode. Great show, interesting concept... And not what they were trying to get across, but it drove my attention span a bit over the line. :-P
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I decided to post the actual words without bleeping it out because well, this is life. (And I'm a firm believer of telling it how it is.) This has been another topic that I've had to think through in the past, and I've even Wikied it for answers. There's even an article on the "4-letter words". After all, if Wikipedia is any indication of general trends, it should give a pretty good definition of what our *society* thinks of curse words. (Really, who knows what we consider society to be over the Net??) Anyhow, I'd like to hear your thoughts before I give mine.

Is everyone going to Heaven?

Ok Ill post something controversial that I thought up when reading Jonah recently. In that book, God says hes going to destroy Nineveh because everyone there is evil. Jonah goes and warns the people that God is going to destroy them, and then they all change their ways and worship God. And then God changes his mind and doesn't destroy the city, which makes Jonah angry because now he looks stupid.

Anyway, all throughout the Bible God says that unless you believe in him and follow his commands, you will go to Hell. But one thing none of us can say for sure is that God won't change his mind. In the end he might say, "oh all right, everyone get in here (Heaven). I just said that so hopefully a lot of you would change your ways."

Of course almost every indication in the Bible says that he WON'T do that, but my point is that he can, and might, do that. We should all live our lives based on the information that we must follow God to go to Heaven, but leave open the possibility that others too might join us.

This thinking is helpful when working in a place where 99% of the population is not Christian, and hundreds of them die every day not ever having heard the word of God. Ok Ive said enough!

The First Post

So I just found out that struggling doesn't have to be as difficult as I make it out to be. Recently, I've been struggling through the onslaught of homework, but instead of asking God to take away the pain, I've been thanking God for the pain. And you know what? The change in perspective has made all the difference.

A while later, I was reminded about this verse: "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:6-7

What was cool to me was that I could come up with this revelation before I read the verse, which yet again proves that the Spirit is truly our helper.