I figure there is enough ugliness in the world without my contribution.

I have heard, many times, from people who swear a lot, about the study which supposedly indicated a positive correlation between the use of profanity and the use of language overall—the implication being that people who swear a lot, contrary to what one might intuitively expect—are actually more intelligent, and more proficient with language, than those who are not.  People who swear a lot love to cite this study as justification of some kind for their foul language.  However, what the study actually showed was that people who can think of a lot of words that start with the letter ‘b’ can also think of a lot of swear words—that is, that people who have large vocabularies also have large profane vocabularies, and people who have small vocabularies also have small profane vocabularies.  The study said nothing about the frequency or liberty with which one uses swear words, much less than the frequent use of such words indicates higher intelligence.  Indeed, most of the people whom I have observed to use profanity often only seem to know one or two such words, and they just use those all the time.

So, the people who conclude that this study indicated that people who swear a lot are more intelligent are in fact less intelligent (indeed, must be outright stupid, to have drawn that conclusion), and people who swear a lot tend to draw that conclusion.  Therefore, people who swear a lot, it would seem, are less intelligent.  See?  I can play this game.

By the way, when Jesus forbade the swearing of oaths, profanity was not what he was talking about.  However, there are plenty of admonitions against profanity in the Bible as well, so you’re not off the hook.  I know you’ll continue to use profanity anyway.  All I’m saying—and it’s inarguably true—is that you shouldn’t, and if you do, you are a lesser person for it.