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As someone who has been known to hurl a few of these in my day\u2014working in a newsroom, it\u2019s as much a part of the vocabulary as \u201crewrite\u201d\u2014I appreciated this posting <\/a><\/strong>from Dr. Thomas J. Neal, via New Advent: <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I was astounded by the staggering mystery of the origins of human language, and amazed by the thought that this God-breathed universe labored for billions of years to birth human beings that could finally <\/em>give it a voice to return to its Maker a Godlike language of thanksgiving and praise.<\/p>\n

Did that unspeakably immense history conceived in the mind of God unfold only to give birth to the F-bomb<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n

Our language either reveals or conceals the divine image stamped in the human heart, and when we stand before the \u2018dread judgment<\/strong><\/a> seat of Christ\u2019 we will be asked to account for the every<\/strong><\/a> word. Mine will be a long judgment.<\/p>\n

Our bodies<\/strong><\/a> were created to glorify God, were transformed in Baptism into Temples of the ineffable Trinity, and our voices are the prime<\/strong><\/a> instrument of that Temple. As a friend of ours from Boston\u00a0said (with a\u00a0Baahstin\u00a0<\/em>accent)\u00a0after a remarkable conversion back to the faith, \u2018I can\u2019t cuss any more, cuz now I know the Holy Spirit\u2019s listening!\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m going to find some soap and wash out my mouth \u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As someone who has been known to hurl a few of these in my day\u2014working in a newsroom, it\u2019s as much a part of the vocabulary as \u201crewrite\u201d\u2014I appreciated this posting from Dr. Thomas J. Neal, via New Advent: I was astounded by the staggering mystery of the origins of human language, and amazed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-links"],"yoast_head":"\nDuck! 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