{"id":9489,"date":"2010-08-09T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2010-08-09T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T20:18:08","slug":"swearing-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/swearing-for-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Swearing for Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:\"Add<\/p>\n

Reverend Michael Land, 67, said Christians needed to adopt swearing in their everyday language because it is how Jesus would have spoken.<\/p>\n

He said too many people put Jesus “on a pedestal” and failed to realise that he was poor, relatively uneducated and preferred not to mix with the elite of his day.<\/p>\n

He added that the Church risked becoming out of touch with ordinary people if its clergy did not become “streetwise” and failed to use earthy language.<\/p>\n

Rev Land, who is retired but still preaches at Burghill occasionally, said: “The church must be more streetwise and use language most people use today.<\/p>\n

“People view Jesus through tinted spectacles and place him on a pedestal.<\/p>\n

“The reality is that he was poor, lacked any real education and did not fraternise with Pharisees or scholars.<\/p>\n

“People today would probably be quite shocked at the language he used at that time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m all for speaking to people in language that they understand even if it is a bit ripe. Rev. Land\u2019s real problem, though, is his implied de-Deification of Jesus. Who better to be on a pedestal than God? Rev. Land\u2019s insistence that Jesus doesn\u2019t belong there presumably means he doesn\u2019t believe Jesus is God and, thus,\u00a0 is not a worthy object of our worship.<\/p>\n

Even though Rev. Land is a bit wobbly on the Deity of Jesus, he does have firm views on driving:<\/p>\n

He described the driving incident and said: “Someone pulled out in front of me so I sounded my horn. The driver got out of his car and came over to me.<\/p>\n

“I wound my window down and said ‘why don’t you learn to f***ing drive’. He just walked away. I don’t think he could believe it.<\/p>\n

“I did not remove my clerical collar, why should I? I did it then and I’d do it again, I’m not afraid to tell it how it is even if that means swearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me that Rev. Land should learn how to be a fucking vicar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here: Reverend Michael Land, 67, said Christians needed to adopt swearing in their everyday language because it is how Jesus would have spoken. He said too many people put Jesus “on a pedestal” and failed to realise that he … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2036],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-mayhem","tag-anglican-mayhem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}