Warning! Large use of profanity within this article!

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One of my greatest pet peeve(s) is the over use of mock profanity or an extreme fear of bad words. Now I don’t mean you should be dropping the F-bomb in front of six year-olds; But I’m not apposed to saying “hell” or “damn” in front of them either, (within the correct context!)

When directed towards someone.

Now, profanity, cursing, swearing, so-on and so-forth, in my opinion are almost totally benign when not directed towards person(s).
It is rude to tell somebody to “Go to hell” or "[May] God damn you". Because you are openly wishing awful suffering upon them. But then, clean profanity isn’t any better; I doubt this ever happens but somebody yelling “Gosh darn you to heck!”, technically there is no profanity in the sentence but anybody with a knowledge of English can understand the intent, which is the exact same intent as “God damn you to hell”. So the open wish of harm/suffering is still conveyed within that statement with or without the use of contemporary profanity; Thus clean profanity can just be as hurtful as regular profanity.

Too holy, for the Holy Bible.

Even when I was a small child I hated the term “H-E double hockey sticks” (And note when I was a kid, I straight up refused to say words like “dumb” and “stupid”, and I would even get upset whenever my parents would use those words.)

Hell is not inherently a bad word, yes, it can be used in a bad way; But in the case of “H-E double hockey sticks”, in my opinion sounds like lazy parenting, that you’re too lazy to teach your kid proper behavior and you’d rather just try to hide so-called bad words from them. Which won’t work forever and eventually they’ll learn those words not from you, and in an improper manner. Just wait until they read the Bible; Jesus himself said the word hell multiple times within the Gospels.¹ Unless you want your priest or pastor to censor the Bible, when he gives his Sunday sermon.
Here are some examples of words viewed as profane in contemporary culture being used in the Bible:

“But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?”²

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“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”³

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He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.⁴

Closing.

This has been something that has bothered me for a while, and I’ve just had the opportunity to write about this now. Despite this article, I’m not really one to use profanity nor am I one to shy away from it either.
If I spill coffee over myself, sure I’ll murmur a “damn it”, but honestly I don’t fully mind using mock profanity as long as I’m okay with using the correlated real word (I do my best to not hold a double standard). If somebody is telling me a story about something bad, I may throw in an “Oh gosh” or two as a curtsy.

The thing that truly bothers me, is when people are okay with themselves or their children using safe profanity, but would be upset or morally displeased, when they hear/use the contemporary parallel word.

Don’t be a hypocrite or else gosh will darn you to heck.