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Someone Once Said . . . • What aileth the man so sinfully to swear.-Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales • If my mom walked the halls of my high school, she wouldn’t believe it.-Tighe Herren, seventeen, high school junior from Louisville, KY, about profanity at school • What is required in the third commandment? The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works. What is forbidden in the third commandment? The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.-The Westminster Shorter Catechism, questions 54 and 55
The point
A composite on profanity: teen testimony on school language and the Puritan meaning of the third commandment.
Scripture
Exodus 20:7
Audience
Adults
To tell aloud
under a minute · 99 words