James Finn
1 min readAug 15, 2022

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Red alert! A teenager used words some adults find socially unacceptable! God must hate that!

Sigh.

Sadly, the Christianity proposed by your commenter matches too many of my own experiences: "We're better than you, because we know what holy means, and we live our lives in a pure way that we know God wants."

That sentiment is not always as blatantly expressed as the example you showed us, but it sure is prevalent.

I took a few minutes to listen to the teenager's rap, and while I'm no fan of the genre either, I get the sense that he has a lot more to say than "swear" words for shock value.

Looks like he's a fan of hyperbole too.

Maybe some of these good Christians should engage with him and find out what he's thinking and feeling, why he's rapping what he's rapping – before they decide they know him by works they haven't bothered to try to understand.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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