They Are Only Words (4 of 6)
Series: Fake News
Jeff Strite
James 3:5-12
OPEN: Words have meaning. (We showed a video clip by www.vidangel.com/ that explained the impact of curse words on our families using paint balls fired at a family watching TV to visualize the sharp increase of swear words in our ''entertainment'' mediums. You can find the video we used at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIf4m5YV04)
''Every word has IMPACT.''
One scholar noted that we live in a culture that has become increasingly vulgar. ''All forms of media have become saltier... The incidence and the severity of curse words on primetime television increased sharply from 1990 to 2005, for both cable and broadcast networks. (And the use of profanity) in books has exploded since the 1960s. And by some estimates, people curse nearly twice as much on Twitter as they do in spoken conversation.'' (Michael Adams, an Indiana University English professor and author of ''In Praise of Profanity')
Now, what's interesting, is the response that many people have to that level of vulgarness. On YouTube (where I got this video from Angelvid)) they have a comment section. Several people responded to what you just saw... with posts like these:
''Grow up! They're just words.''
Someone else wrote: ''Everyone takes curse words as a bad thing... but to me they shouldn't have their own classification. They're just words used to put extra emphasis on a point someone is trying to make.''
THEY'RE JUST WORDS!
This is the kind of ''fake news'' we're discussing today. This idea that curse words are just words is a concept that is creeping into our churches. To illustrate that, let me tell you about myself.
ILLUS: I'm a big superhero fan. I just love about any movie with a fantasy hero - Superman, Spiderman, Captain America, etc. - so I was really enjoying the Avenger series of movies by Marvel. The only movie in that series I haven't seen was the last one. Endgame. The reason I haven't watched ...
Series: Fake News
Jeff Strite
James 3:5-12
OPEN: Words have meaning. (We showed a video clip by www.vidangel.com/ that explained the impact of curse words on our families using paint balls fired at a family watching TV to visualize the sharp increase of swear words in our ''entertainment'' mediums. You can find the video we used at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIf4m5YV04)
''Every word has IMPACT.''
One scholar noted that we live in a culture that has become increasingly vulgar. ''All forms of media have become saltier... The incidence and the severity of curse words on primetime television increased sharply from 1990 to 2005, for both cable and broadcast networks. (And the use of profanity) in books has exploded since the 1960s. And by some estimates, people curse nearly twice as much on Twitter as they do in spoken conversation.'' (Michael Adams, an Indiana University English professor and author of ''In Praise of Profanity')
Now, what's interesting, is the response that many people have to that level of vulgarness. On YouTube (where I got this video from Angelvid)) they have a comment section. Several people responded to what you just saw... with posts like these:
''Grow up! They're just words.''
Someone else wrote: ''Everyone takes curse words as a bad thing... but to me they shouldn't have their own classification. They're just words used to put extra emphasis on a point someone is trying to make.''
THEY'RE JUST WORDS!
This is the kind of ''fake news'' we're discussing today. This idea that curse words are just words is a concept that is creeping into our churches. To illustrate that, let me tell you about myself.
ILLUS: I'm a big superhero fan. I just love about any movie with a fantasy hero - Superman, Spiderman, Captain America, etc. - so I was really enjoying the Avenger series of movies by Marvel. The only movie in that series I haven't seen was the last one. Endgame. The reason I haven't watched ...
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