WOW!!

At least how I read it, Tom was giving his opinion on how he and his wife reacted and was suggesting to our fearless leaders that keeping “God damn it” or “Jesus Christ” out of the lexicon would eliminate the risk of turning off Christians while making the materials easier to share with a wider audience including younger people. Isn’t helping to get the message out by expanding the audience part of the reason we’re here?
Some people took this as a demand rather than a request to censor speech as our dearly beloved leftists of cancel culture are prone to do. While I understand the need to be on the lookout for these imposed restrictions of free speech, Tom’s request was not that.
Woven into Tom’s plea is a call for a higher standard. Many Christians including myself are fed up with the race to the bottom presented by secular society including Hollywood in the name of “progress” by the same tolerant people who can’t bear the sight of a nativity scene in front of city hall. A higher standard such as the one followed by Booker T. Washington in founding, filling and graduating students from Tuskegee University on a former Alabama plantation in the segregated South after the Civil War would be refreshing.
So I’ll go a step further than Tom. It’s easy to be like everyone else. Let’s do the small things that make the Whittleverse a cut above the rest. In my opinion, we all already do a great job of keeping the discussions civil. I’m not sure that respectfully refraining from the use of two phrases is that much more to ask if it keeps our Christian brethren feeling warm and fuzzy.
There’s a whole English language out there, and unlike the authoritarian left, Tom was requesting rather than demanding. So am I. Also unlike the authoritarian left, I’m not seeking this as a means of power or fulfillment. Rather, it’s a way to honor my Savior.
Respectfully submitted.