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I believe the RM has a warranted and well executed interest in helping us keep our language family friendly.

Years ago, I had a post pulled for using the Biblical term in, I thought, a fitting way. I think, IIRC, a few years later, the RM noted that Scriptures would be allowed AS SCRIPTURE.

In our culture at large, the language has been degraded or has evolved in an 'earthier' direction--perhaps language normall does that--particularly when the culture is going to blazes in a hand basket so rapidly.

Personally, I think Scriptural terms would be fittingly used in a Scriptural way. Though that could easily get into endless arguments, I think the RM'S 'MERE' OPINION SHOULD BE ACCEPTED BY ONE AND ALL WITHOUT ANY QUIBBLE WHATSOEVER. . . . Unless, perhaps, the quibbler is willing to pay the RM a salary of say $3,500/month.

I like the Message version of Scripture so much because it rings true to my sense of God in Scripture--very down to earth, practical, involved with our nitty gritties of life and NOT AT ALL PRISSY--not at all fussed up about shallow things . . . the INFINITE PURE HOLY GOD IN THE RAW MANIFESTATIONS OF HIS POWER AND PRESENCE without a microgram of prissy-ness. That's MY GOD WHOM I LOVE TO SERVE. HE IS REAL AND REALLY RELIABLY GOD, FAITHFUL TO THE NTH DEGREE. WHAT A TRUE 'MATE' IN THE AUSSIE MEANING OF THE TERM.

Pontificated, rabbit fur lined diplo-speak weasel words are more things to be validly allergic to, imho. I think Christ demonstrated a similar attitude--sometimes with his raw language.

Sometimes, raw, earthy language knocks the starch, the shallowness, the prissy-ness out of us and out of our high-horse mentalities and sensibilities. Humility is good.

By the same token, we ought to avoid any side-trip into the gutter of the modern gutteral communication. That may seem like a tricky dance back and forth across a thin line. I don't think it needs to be. We can tell and certainly the RM can tell when we have decided to drench our phrasing in the gutter and when we are using a Biblical emphasis on an authentic Scriptural meaning and truth that God's Spirit first authored.