Thread: Insult Islam, get sent to prison?
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Old 01-23-2009, 08:25 PM
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Re: Insult Islam, get sent to prison?
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Originally Posted by Aquila View Post
African Americans use the "N" word when speaking to each other, but that's the way they've taken the sting out of the word. The word is still an uncouth pejorative. I would never expect a minister, be him black or white, to use the "N" word behind the pulpit. Praxeas, if you're the kind of man who doesn't care about cursing or pejoratives over the pulpit that says a lot about you and that's an issue you and God are going to have to work out.
Right AND because most find it offensive...when we refuse to use it we are "taking our ques from African Americans"... I don't have a problem with doing that or admitting that is why we don't use certain words
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