I'm just now posting again here because I just found the line that explains my POV perfectly here:ArnoldtheRubberDucky wrote:And neither do I.
As for your other argument, I believe I already mentioned that casual swearing doesn't really "add anything special" to a conversation. I'm not saying that casual swearing is a good, moral thing that the world needs more of, but I don't believe it's an "aspersion", as you say. It's a completely neutral statement, and should, in many ways, be treated like any other neutral statement. Do the substitute words for swearing that people use add anything to a conversation either? No, but nobody really complains when people say them the way that people will freak out over cuss words.
"Live your life in such a way that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip" -- Will Rogers.
Or, in this case, to your pastor.
Swearing "for fun" I can't exactly call a sin, because I don't exactly know (aside from using God's name wrongly). But for me, if someone called him/herself a Christian and was "for fun" swearing all the time, I would want to get away and not hang out with them.