Monday, November 22, 2010

Learning to say the F word

What if I told you God told me to say the F word?  Is that blasphemy?  offensive to you?  What if God wanted me to say it to blow your minds?  Challenge your misconceptions of good and bad?  Stretch your views of love and tolerance and acceptance?  What if by saying it, it set you free from every religious tendency, or legalistic approach to expressing your life?  What if it made you less hateful and more free from the justifications that keep you from being real with other people?      
To be honest.  I'm still uncomfortable saying it.  It's just the way I was raised.  But underneath the discomfort there's this rebellious spark; a mean feeling of satisfaction.  A final realization that if I was ever gonna make a clear and final break with my self-righteous world of the past, I was gonna have to start using the F word.

When it comes to judging people, identifying those who are able to use the F word is the best way to separate the wheat from the chaff.  And it's the forceful way out of the blues.  It helps you take off the mask and stop pretending.  And it feels good to say it, and quite frankly I don't give a..........

hoot,

what people think anymore.

If you're overly religious, self-righteous, I suspect you haven't made it down my post this far.  And for that, I give you the F word as well.  And though you're probably the hardest person to say it to, the word being so foreign to you and all, it's for your unwillingness to listen, your tendency to judge and prejudge, your inability to hear or see anything outside of yourself and your own very narrow view of the world.... that to you........ In the name of Jesus who first taught me the F word himself.  To you, I wanna say, F-you.  (And by F, I mean,  FORGIVE).

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