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Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...
The occasion in se is one which leads to sin by its nature, such as gambling or obscenity, while the occasion per accidens is in by which the human weakness of some people in particular may lead to sin, such as military professions, legal professions, binge drinking, and artistic professions. [17] The remote occasion lacks these elements.
[2] [4] Profanity represented secular indifference to religion or religious figures, while blasphemy was a more offensive attack on religion and religious figures, considered sinful, and a direct violation of The Ten Commandments. Moreover, many Bible verses speak against swearing. [5]
The difference and gravity of sins may be discerned on the grounds of spirit and flesh, even mortal sins may differ in gravity. Carnal sins like lust, adultery or fornication, gluttony and avarice, because the person who commits them is inordinately directed towards material goods that are a serious matter, are mortal sins. They may cause much ...
The profanity of damn and its derivatives (e.g. damned, damnation) is effectively limited to cases where the word is not used in its literal meaning, e.g., "The damned dog won't stop barking!" "The damned dog won't stop barking!"
It's about profanity. Not all profanity is obscene, and not all obscenity is blasphemy, probably not all blasphemy is obscene. So they're obviously all different concepts, (albeit with large overlaps), and they have different articles blasphemy, profanity and obscenity.Rememberway 04:44, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
“In the Bible, all sorts of families are represented, not just one view of a family system,” she says. The result, Cobb says, is “we’re having the the debate about what a Christian family ...
Another difference between U.S. constitutional law concerning obscenity and that governing child pornography is that the Supreme Court ruled in Stanley v. Georgia , 394 U.S. 557 (1969), that possession of obscene material could not be criminalized, while in Osborne v.