I grew up in the church. Consequently I became fluent in Christianese by age of 10. Christianese for those who don’t know is the ability to communicate ideas through the prism of some tradition or denominationally imposed borders usually based on terms and words taken from the King James Bible
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King J used a lot of cool words and idioms that define American Christianese like “blessed” and “stumbling block”. King Jimmy also used words that would be considered inappropriate for use in a Sunday service. One of the classics being the word “pisseth” ( 1 Sam:25:22 ) which by ...   more »