Precious and Sweet

There is nothing that disgusts me more than to hear churchy folk use churchy cutsie phrases. It smacks of listening to the church lady on Saturday night Live a few years back. The reason the world makes fun of Christianity is because Christianity is one of the few religions where there's so much freedom that people take liberties with it and make up stupid shit and call it belief, or doctrine, dogma.. dare I say 'faith'.

One of the cutsie things churchy folks will do is refer to our Lord and savior as 'precious' or 'sweet'. Ok if you're referring to your household pet, but we're talking about the King of all Kings, Lord of the Universe.. where do you get off calling Him by a name much more suited for a poodle than the giver of your eternal salvation?

The scriptures call Him 'wonderful', 'counselor', the 'mighty God', 'advocate', 'the resurrection and the life', the 'light of the world', 'holy one', 'high priest', and 'the way, the truth, and the life'. Where does precious or sweet enter into that picture?

Christians had better clean up their petty excuse for a religion and get on with humbling themselves knowing that God isn't your pet poodle, but is the creator of everything and the creator of YOU. How dare you make a mockery of the Lord with your off-the-shelf brand of Christianity?

Remember too that Jesus was the Lord who overturned the tables in the temple, beat people with a rope, grabbed a sword from Peter's hand, and called the apostles stupid for not listening. That's my Jesus - My 'ass kicking' Jesus.

AMEN.
Chris