I'm kind of enjoying watching the old school and neo school calvinistas debate the merits of "vulgar" language from the pulpit.  Even Ed Young has chimed in with a video blog.  (Ed Young annoys the hell out of me.  Ooops.  Sorry about the "hell.")

I would suggest this is a generation thing.  I'd suggest that the younger generation is in a more correct place in viewing all words as inherently neutral and not stuck on one side or another of some Platonic divide.  There are way we use words for lifting up and tearing down.  There are words that are appropriate and controversial in certain situations.  But to say some words are "dirty"?  Well it's just plain empty.  Perhaps they can give me a list of the dirty words and upon whose authority they've been deemed bad.  I'd like to give them a list of my own words I find offensive and would like them to refrain from using.  In the end, we'd both be protecting our own world views of social mores and acceptable behavior instead of fully engaging the other.  We all get to control what we allow to be offensive.  It's sad when we're offended by such petty things while horrors happen all around us.

I feel like this harkens back to the days of colonialism.  Missionaries would go to other cultures and teach them how to become "civilized" (aka: put on clothes and look american) in order to be a better Christian.  Isn't this the exact same thing?  But instead of clothes, we're dressing ourselves up with arbitrary words and phrases?  It's all for not I'd suggest.