Originally Posted by travrocks
Words are words they are all harmless until we give them power. If we didn't tell kids the words were bad they would just grow up thinking it was just another word. I always find it funny that people always say that "god dammit" is blasphemy when it would by definition be the exact opposite. "Dammit God" would be blasphemy because your damning "god" but because 90% of people are to ignorant to use a little logic we tell kids it's a bad word. The F word would never exist if kids actually knew what it meant. Words are just words and until we stop being prudes and making things taboo we have to deal with ignorance. What would jesus do? he would say ass, or whatever the equivalent word of the day was, how do i know this? He already did according to the bible which is supposedly gods word right, but i guess we know more then him.



As always, it just so happens that I've written a song about this whole topic.

Not since we started discussing it here, I mean; rather I wrote and recorded it 17 years ago. But it seems kind of relevant.

Holier Than Thou

Don't let the kid watch TV late
It incites them to fornicate
Watch for all the naughty words
Stand up for decency
For all the sin and wickedness
You blame the BBC

Chorus:
So ban the box and ban this song
Yeah, you know what's right and wrong
Protecting the weak, you're always strong
Oh, you're so ... holier than thou

Campaign against godlessness
You never mind your own business
Longing for a golden age
That never did exist
When people knew their proper place
Before permissiveness

You're standing up for royalty
Protect them from the likes of me
People now've got no respect
Not like in your day
It's time to turn back the clock
Reverse this moral decay

Repeat chorus

Eyes glues to the TV screen
You're taking notes on every scene
The government should intervene
Make it wholesome, make it clean
Write to all the top MPs
Let them know your views
But it's funny how the films you watch
Don't seem to affect you

Repeat chorus twice

http://soundcloud.com/stevecooke/holier-than-thou

Steve Cooke
Stockton-on-Tees, UK
http://wwww.soundcloud.com/stevecooke