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I enjoy hearing others’ thoughts on the end times and contributing the occasional opinion here or there, but it’s not something I know a whole lot about. Free will I could debate forever, but we’ve already got that going in another thread. XD And baptism I can argue from both sides, as far as paedobaptism vs. credobaptism, because I grew up baptist and then my immediate family and I ended up largely Presbyterian (all individually XD).

Some characters are uneducated and lazy.

That’s a very broad generalization. Just because I can see the value in using a coarse word once in a blue moon for the purposes of theme or character doesn’t mean I seek out the word for its own sake. There are differing comfort levels and differing reasons for those comfort levels depending on the person, and it’s the motivation that should be considered more than the behavior unless the behavior is a black-and-white sin

To my reading, curse words are more in a category with eating things offered to idols: a matter of motivation and conscience (both your own and that of those who would be impacted by your behavior). I doubt we’d be as hasty to call out non-cussing insults or other “filthy language” that tears down in a book. Though, granted, some readers will be more prone to get cuss words stuck in their heads than other “filthy language,” and that’s where the matter of looking out for another’s conscience comes in. But readers are prone to all sorts of sins, and that doesn’t mean we can just leave them out entirely when a book requires them. (Emphasis, again, on the necessity, because it’s incredibly rare that a curse word is truly necessary, and I’m not saying we should just throw in a heap of language for “authenticity.”)