Sins Christians Downplay

Recently someone posted the following article in a Facebook group I’m a part of. The article is titled “10 Sins Christians Downplay.” (Since accessing the article the first time, I’m now having trouble seeing the whole thing)

I went in assuming a few things about the article given the nature of the Facebook group. I was way off on what those 10 sins were that the author was concerned with. One of the biggest sins that the author was concerned with was vulgar language.

And here I thought Puritanism died out a couple of centuries ago.

Also, vulgar language isn’t unbiblical, as the Rev. Bosco Peters, an Anglican priest in New Zealand points out in his post titled “ Saint Paul says shit.”

Rev. Bosco specifically point to Philippians 3:8, which most English translators mess up by using softer, kinder language.

“Not the nice excrement, dung, or poop. In Saint Paul’s day σκύβαλα/shit was used in polite conversation about as much as we use it now. He is being very vulgar.”

Apparently Paul didn’t read the 10 sins article.

The rest of the article was just as terrible — concerned with things that are about sin management (as some commentators on the Facebook page said).

These are first world problems. If things like vulgar language is your biggest concern about Christians, I have to point out a few things. No where on the list of 10 sins that Christians down play did I see any concern at all for how…