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Article Title:	Kaleidoscope Controversy
Author of reported comment:	Bryce Tangvald
Comment Date:	18:01 on Jan 8 2019
Comment:	Chad was brave enough to be so brutally honest about where he was at when writing this. If we bleach over the parts of us that are mud-covered, this does nothing to remove the mud and leaves us with bleached mud. In this song's honest lyrics, we're hearing the prayer "Lord, Have mercy on me, a wretched sinner." While Jesus points to this honesty being approached in private, I wonder if He would applaud the license given to those who are also going through a rough patch to be honest with God and the community of Christians about the vulnerable place they're truly in. We can vilify this band for "backsliding" because they spoke with honesty, but have you Never heard a trusted Christian leader say something that made you sit up straighter and say "Yes, you're right. That word or phraseology is absolutely appropriate in this situation of brokenness, pain or frustration." I've used coarse language in the past when doing heavy manual labour and hurting myself. This isn't an excuse for using that type of language nor is it an good time to use it. However, in conversations with young people from a Christian Youth group who weren't themselves Christian, I spoke plainly about some forms of sexual relationship both those that are positive and life affirming and those that are destructive, broken, and leading to a sort of imprisonment. I explained that the way that leads to death is similar to the colloquial understanding of the f-word defined. In this situation, I conceded the use of the f-word to name it for what it truly is, speaking to the selfish, life shattering nature of brutal rape. For instance, I recall my old, English Anglican Vicar say to me, in light of the situation of a 15 year old girl who died of an excruciating cancer, "This is shit, in every sense of the word." It struck me that this was an ok time for this word to be used. It wasn't unclean or vulgar. It was correctly applied to the emotional attachment for which it should be used.

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