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To: Mamzelle

That stuff isn’t funny.

My mother always said people who blaspheme will one day get punished. I hope to see it.


8 posted on 04/18/2012 10:02:31 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer
"My mother always said people who blaspheme will one day get punished."

Here's the passage she is citing, 1 Samuel 2:30: "Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained." Thought I would help you brush up on your Bible knowledge.

True story -- a Marine who fought in Vietnam, in some of the worst fighting of the war, wrote a manuscript about his experience during those fierce battles. The author was candid in his use of swearing, as this was the way the troops actually talked in 'Nam. The manuscript was a flop; not a single publisher expressed interest.

The retired Marine became a Christian a few years later and was convicted, while talking with fellow Christians, that the swearing in his MS, mostly f-bombs, G-Ds, and "Jesus Christ" as an exclamatory, did not honor God as per 1 Samuel, even if accurate. He spent months excising all the curse words out of his MS, not an easy thing to do.

He resubmitted the MS to a handful of publishers and, guess what? Lo and behold, one of the editors who had previously turned down the book ended up loving it. She wasn't a Christian and didn't even recall the initial rejection. The book went on to become a sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and being known as an honest yet brutal depiction of the horrors, and the honor, or being a Marine in Vietnam. The book is "Guns Up" by Johnnie Clark.

Clark, in a footnote to the published book, explained that he attributed the improved fortunes solely to his decision to honor God by removing all the swearing.

To God be the glory! "He who honors me, him I will also honor."

15 posted on 04/18/2012 12:47:33 PM PDT by tom h
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