Mr. red hot pants

Jon is writing a book for Zondervan and though it will have mostly new stuff, some of his old stuff will make it. You can see why.

#15. Calling Satan, "the enemy."

This is one of my personal favorites. At some point in 1996, everyone decided to call satan, "the enemy." I don't know how it happened but I have a guess at why it happened. I think it happened because we're afraid to look weird if we talk about the devil. And it's a weird thing to do, I agree. In a world governed by logic and science and reason, to associate your life with a pure evil entity that is hellbent on destroying you at any given opportunity is a little freaky. That's why you rarely hear someone say, "Wow, satan was really attacking me last night." Instead, we say the enemy because it's a much safer word. Everyone understands what enemy means, it's just someone or something that is against you. So instead of feeling weird, we feel OK when we say, "Wow, the enemy was really attacking me last night." How far will we take the softening of the words we use to describe satan? We'll see, but I wouldn't be surprised if given his immense Public Relations magic we eventually call the devil, "the opponent" or maybe even "Mr. red hot pants."

I was going to post a funny one I could relate to called: #334 The "Stop That" Church Hand Grab but you won't get it unless you were raised Baptist, don't attend a CC church and know their "rule" or, are one of MY kids!