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Old 01-16-2004, 04:11 PM   #1
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Censorship in the "Land of Freedom"

Unfortunatly, this "Land of Freedom" that we have known as America, as we all know, isn't always comprehendable.

Today, on my way home from work, What's This Life for was played on the radio. That's one of my favorite Creed songs, and I'm not sure as if I've heard it on the radio before or not, but I noticed that when Stapp sings:
"But they ain't here anymore. Don't have to settle no God-Damn score."
that the word that was censored out was NOT damn, but God.

How is it that God is a more offensive word then a word that even the dictionary proclaims as vulgar?


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Old 01-16-2004, 04:31 PM   #2
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I think there getting way to carried away with censorship and politically correctness.
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Old 01-16-2004, 05:05 PM   #3
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I'll say, that's just sad.
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Old 01-16-2004, 05:08 PM   #4
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The reason "God" was censored is not because "God" is offensive, but because it's offensive to say "God damned" to certain people. That song's always been edited like that on the radio.
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Old 01-16-2004, 05:34 PM   #5
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Hmmm... never noticed that before!
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Old 01-16-2004, 05:40 PM   #6
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Me either I don't listen to the radio that much either
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Old 01-16-2004, 06:01 PM   #7
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I have the Promo CD Single of WTLF with the radio edit version on it
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Old 01-16-2004, 06:08 PM   #8
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yeah, on MTV they edited the same part as well.

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Old 01-16-2004, 09:05 PM   #9
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Quote: (Originally Posted by Steve) The reason "God" was censored is not because "God" is offensive, but because it's offensive to say "God damned" to certain people. That song's always been edited like that on the radio.

that's what i figured
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Yeah that's true, God damned is offensive to some people. Its strange though because here they don't beep out anything on the rock station here, I guess that's saying if you don't like the song, the "swearing" don't listen, lol
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Quote: (Originally Posted by addicted2stapp) Yeah that's true, God damned is offensive to some people. Its strange though because here they don't beep out anything on the rock station here, I guess that's saying if you don't like the song, the "swearing" don't listen, lol
Y'know that Everlast song, uhh, I don't know the name of it. But here, some stations beep out drugs, and just the most non sence things to beep out. Drugs are a bad thing, but it isn't a bad word. That's always something that has made me wonder about.......

I have heard the edited version. Atleast they play the song! Some stations seem to have something against Creed, so they don't play the songs untill they have to.
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Our local rock station, WMMR in Philly, plays Creed probably more often than some. I've heard WTLF several times on that station, and it's not edited out.
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yeah, censorship is crazy these days
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Old 01-18-2004, 07:59 PM   #14
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Yeah, I've noticed in other songs before, that "God" is censored. I'm not sure they're censoring the existence of the word "God", but moreso the fact that "Goddamn" is one of those offensive, illegal words like "shit" and "fuck"; "damn", of course, is an 'okay' word, so they prolly use that b/c it sorta gets the same message across... but I'm not sure why "Goddamn" is that much more offensive than just plain ol' "damn". ***damn, that sh** is f***ed up!
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When they play WTLF on our local rock station, they don't censor it out. I guess only certain ones do.
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