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 I think something you need to remember is the Bible is rated R. It’s not a children’s story. It contains murder, sexual assault, a father who murders his daughter, and a lowly carpenter hanging naked on a tree. Yet the Bible does not use it wantonly. It uses for a purpose.

I’ll try to respond to the rest of what you and Archer said soon, but I needed to respond to this before I go to bed. xD

The bible is by no means rated R. Just because it mentioned all those sins and atrocities does not mean it explicitly describes them. It does not explicitly describe strong language, sexual assault, fornication, nakedness, or even murder. I think it is just fine and even beneficial to a to books– historical fiction books in particular–to mention all of these atrocities, but there is a difference between mentioning them, and showing them  explicitly (like R rated movies). Just mentioning these things means that it may not be for certain audiences, it does not mean it is a sinful R rating.  And swearing should be treated the same as all those other sins or sexual things. We can mention it, but not explicitly describe it (or in the case of swearing, come out in say the bad word–which is why I like “she/he cursed”).

Was that coherent?