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" For many years, however, I did use the language of the job in contexts of school and church. I did so in part, I think, because I did not want to lose my bearings —my sense of where I had come from. That said, I suspect my use of profanity was more complex than simply an attempt to stay connected with my working-class roots. I also used the language of the job in school and church because I discovered that speaking this way upset the pious, and I took delight in that result. I hated the hypocrisy that niceness cloaks. As I grew older, however, I found my reputation for having a foul mouth to be more of a burden than a blessing, so I did my best to let such language return to being that of “the job. "
― Stanley Hauerwas , Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir