Does God mind cussin'?

[Slopeshoulder]

Well Otseng does, so I can't use any examples!

But in another thread DeMaria wrote:

People can acquire holy habits or sinful habits. They can have holy rituals or sinful rituals. Just ask anyone can vouch who has fought the habit of a foul mouth by establishing the habit of speaking only that which is pleasing unto God. It is not easy, but it is worthwhile to do so.

I took that out of context as a side comment in a longer post having to do with catholic doctrine with which I had no specific quarrel. But this raises an issue:

Assuming god exists and god doesn't like hate speech, lying, disrespect to others, or false oaths (especially those that invoke his name), using language to do violence or de-create the good creation, does he really mind "dirty words"? Do they count as a "foul mouth"?
I tend to think that these words are arbitrary products of a puritan heritage and victorian bourgeois sensibility, having nothing to do with religion except as mistaken expressions of radical anti-body dualism, and that actually God smiles upon the honesty and passion associated with their use. So to praise God's integrity honesty and passion, I tend to use 'em all the time. I suspect it must please him, or that he doesn't care. So I'm at it every 5 minutes. I make no distinction, and feel that equating ceasing to use these words with some sort of spiritual progress is rather off the mark. I only stop for a few minutes if it's my self interest to do so in a particular social or professional context, temporarily ceding power to the dominant puritan-victorian narrative in these circumstances. Or sometimes if my love of language leads me to find a better way to express the thought and emotion I have in any given moment. God hates sin, but potty doesn't matter so much. It can be honest, accurate, and even poetic.

What is it with all this anti-potty crap? Is this still relevant? Or is it just part of an accidental puritan and victorian cultural heritage that obscures the real issue? Or gee golly willickers should I just shut the...H-E-double toothpicks up ? Dang it all, am I just talking bullroar here?

What say you?

[DiscipleOfTruth]

In my opinion I get this strong feeling that someone made up the rule of swears being considered bad speech just because their swears. Then the teaching gets past down till it's forgotten where it came from and that point no one cares.

The bible doesn't speak directly against cuss words. And scriptures that talking about ''cursing'' are quite vague because in those days people could literally say they put a curse on someone for various reasons. Far as I'm concerned swears are as normal as any other word. It's about what the words are saying not so much the words that are being used to say it.