Thursday, September 21, 2006

Those Bleeping Lyrics

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Anonymous said...

interesting stuff. i do think there is a time and place when the right word, chosen carefully, with the right intent behind it can be very helpful. i haven't heard the song, but by reading the lyrics, it sounds like otr did a good job of placing the word as such. but they likely didn't do themselves any favors in the ccm industry.

at the same time, 99% of the time when someone tries to place one well for effect in a Christian setting, its backfires tremendously.

i once read that tony campolo was speaking to a Christian college campus and said, "there are (insert poverty statistic here) and most of you don't give a s____." the audience was shocked as he continued, "in fact, most of you are more concerned about the fact that i just said a naughty word than the statistic i just quoted."

to prove his point the speech was followed up by a letter from the university president upset about his choice of words, and included nothing about poverty.

thats a long rambling reply.

i'm done.

1:21 PM
T. J. said...

i do understand the point made by campolo, but doesn't that help support the side that says we as Christians should avoid using "profanity." if it is so easy to be distracted by the language of another person, shouldn't we be able to express ourselves or get a point across by using another word so that our main thought is the focus of what is being heard. not the words themselves.

i think there are good points to both sides of this argument. i just think back to the times when i was talking with another person who claimed to be a christian but i didn't know them very well, and they used some language that i wouldn't necessarily use. it stuck out to me and my first reaction was, "hmmm, i wonder if this person's claim about who he/she is is true."

maybe thats just me being judgemental.

8:30 AM

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