Stop calling me a #$%-ing heretic! |
Its tough being an Evangelical and living in America. Its pressed upon you early in training that if you have more people seated in your pews then God is blessing your ministry. If its empty then God apparently hates you... or at least is teaching how to change. More equals better. A similar thing is true for us Americans as a whole. We may be miserable 24 hours a day but if we make lots of money then we are a success story. Again, more equals better. Eventually you start thinking "by any means necessary." Is this the kind of thinking that inspires us to use profanity to drive ideas home?
Some people will tell you that they are simply passionate and they are only using the language of the culture in which they serve. What is profane to you may not be to someone else. There's a sort of cultural relativism (those two words could be classified as profane in some theological circles) that gives you freedom to say, "Don't you see? Sin is what causes all the s*** in our lives," or "You should go home and say to your wife, 'd*** you're hot!'"
Ladies and gentleman, the infamous "Cussing Pastor" Apparently his wife is "d*** hot." |
Maybe the potty-mouthed church worker is simply working with a deeper repertoire of rhetoric. Maybe the f-bomb is the atomic bomb that may cause lots of collateral damage but will save you of having to teach the same lesson over and over and over again. President Harry Truman thought destroying two cities full of people was less awful than potentially losing millions more in another invasion. From my first hand experiences with pastors and youth pastors using profanity it did seem like a very deliberate decision. As if they were thinking, "I'm not going to continue to rehash this subject. We're going all %$#&-ing in right now and that's it." What's done is done and we can start moving on to other matters of Heavenly work.
would be more fun if he was preaching |
Alas, once again I've proven I'm probably not going to be the cool pastor type. Will they still accept me?
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