By Mike Serovey
When I first joined the LDS church back in 1978 I was told that I needed to clean up my language some. I was a private in the US Army at the time and was quite used to hearing sergeants saying all kinds of vulgar things. I picked up certain words that some people find offensive just from hearing them so often! The LDS church tells its members to avoid the appearance of evil. I have learned from my own experiences, as well as from the experiences of other people, that if it looks like I am doing something that is wrong then small minded people will assume that I actually am doing something wrong! So, I try not to offend other people or do anything that looks fishy. However, no one has ever accused me of being politically correct (pc)! I plan to do another post on being pc and Dale Carnegie Syndrome.
In The Book of Mormon you will find the following words: dumb ass (Mosiah 15:5 & 21:3); harlot (1 Nephi 13:7-8, 34, 14:16-17, Mosiah 11:14, 12:29, & Alma 39:3); and whore (1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, Jacob, Mosiah, Alma, Helaman, 3 Nephi, 4 Nephi, Ether and in D&C 29:21). Whoremonger is found in D&C 63:17 and 76:103. The word "dung" is found in Jacob 5:64 and Mormon 2:15. In the King James Version of the Bible you will find words like Hell, dung, filthy rags, damned, hell fire, bastard, and harlot. And people are telling me to watch my language!?!
In the Bible we have a story of an Israelite king who stole another man's wife and a profit who was told by God to marry a harlot in order to symbolize God's marriage to Israel! We also have a profit who ran around naked while preaching the Gospel! Yet, I'm supposed to avoid the appearance of evil!
I do NOT want people to think badly of me or my church so I will keep the rest of my blog entries here clean. In the words of J. Golden Kimball, "They will never excommunicate me because I repent too damned fast!".
