Seraphim and Profanity

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Rocket Man

Assume for a moment that a Seraph, unlikely as it sounds, has a Role as a gang member, a wiseguy, or some other occupation where profanity is a near-mandatory first language. How close can the Most Holy fly to the wind without being caught in the literal meaning of the expression?

Can he call someone the classic MF title, even if he knows the person has never comitted incest with the appropriate parent?

Can he shout at someone to "Open the F'ing door," even though it is impossible that the object has ever been used for copulation?

Can he shoot down a lie by saying "That's (bull excrement)," even though the words bear no actual resemblance to pastoral manure?

For that matter, can he call someone an S.O.B (unabbreviated), despite the fact that there are no canines anywhere in the individual's ancestry?

In short, where do you draw the dissonance line?

It's an odd subject, but as strange as my group gets, it may come in handy someday ....

Most swearing is either nominal blasphemy(when someone says d___it he usually does not want the object spoken of sent to eternal perdition), or degradation of physical functions. An angel would not blaspheme nominally or otherwise. He would not use the F-word as he would have a healthy, neither ascetic nor libertine, respect for a process designed to allow Godly couples to enjoy pleasure together and bring up children to be raised in love, in a Godly family. The F-word is a vulgarity that implies that the process must needs be dirty and isn't a turn-on if one doesn't think it dirty. An angel would not say SoB because someone who is the son of a wanton woman would attract the angels pity not contempt. An angel would not use swear words based on biological waste because an angel would have no need to be interested in it, unless the human under the angels care had an embarrassing health issue, in which case the angel would of course care that he is suffering. And an angel would not have disorderly emotions so it would have no motive to swear.

Profanity is a reflection of being a fallen human. A hypothetically pristine human would have his emotions in order and his spiritual function would get along with his biological so he would not find biology awkward. A fallen angel would have no motive to use any profanity but blasphemy(unless he was deliberately trying to make himself unpleasant to humans) and those would be real blasphemies not figurative ones. A non-fallen angel would not blaspheme at all. And again it's interest in biology would be intellectual interest, glorying in God's creation, and protective sympathy for the humans under it's charge. An angel would not have to deal with the awkwardness of being both a spirit and an animal. So it would have no reason to swear.