UK: Profanities in movies no longer ‘swearing’?

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When is a religious profanity no longer “profane”? Sixty years ago, religious profanities typically were forbidden in Hollywood movies, as the Protestant and Catholic film offices held sway on issues of acceptability in the “Golden Age” of film. Today, however, in one Western nation, such profanities fail to register even the slightest concern with the primary…