Okay so you've opened this page out of curiosity. I understand! Why would someone want to write about a backed up church toilet? Why would someone want to speak about a backed up church toilet? Why would someone want to remember a backed up church toilet?
Well to answer these questions you'll just have to understand the kind of man that I am. I find great humor in the off color things of life. The incidents that most people would aspire to purge from their memories, are the exact same things that I strive to hold onto. The reasons are simple:
1) I like to laugh
2) I think that watching a man frantically run into the sanctuary with beads of sweat on his forehead, after plugging the church toilet is funny.
Actually, what's even funnier than someone plugging the church toilet is watching the church staff get up out of their chairs of leadership, roll up their sleeves, and make haste in the middle of service to plunge one of the parishioners poop. Okay, I know I said the word poop, but the truth is so do you. Who knows you may say poop every day, I know that I do. I have young kids, a dog, and my wife has a horse; we say poop in my house almost as much as we say food, and why shouldn't we, food and poop are both connected in one way or another aren't they?
The reason for these writings is not to offend, but to bring a little bit of the same bathroom humor we'll laugh about at home, to light in the church. Why-because it's funny.
We've all walked into the restroom at the church and have smelt a foul unholy smell. Why don't we just laugh about it? Why do we make it out to be an unmentionable act? We've all walked into the nursery and wondered why the entire room is filled with that sweet baby fragrance of throw up and dung, but we wouldn't say anything about it. It's just not appropriate.
Look, I understand that every Christian may not have an off color sense of humor, some Christian may not have a sense of humor at all. Not all Christians have the joy or the peace in this life that they'd hope to have. Every Christian may not have a taste for the church potlucks famous macaroni salad, and every Christian may not attend church on a regular basis. But no matter how diverse the likes or tastes of Christians can be, there is one thing that all Christians should be able to talk about. There is one thing that all Christians do have in common. Like it or not, let's face it...Every Christian Poops!!!
How about racial humor in church? Three men fell off a building. Mexican, Black, Pollock. Who landed first? Answer: The Black, because the Pollock got lost and the Mexican stopped to write on the walls. How about the story of Luigi and the Harelip? (A joke that emphasizes the speech impediment of a man with a cleft palate.) These jokes would offend most Christians, but probably not all. I am offended by bathroom humor, but most Christians (today) are not. Is it simply that the majority rules and we therefore will use humor that is acceptable to the majority (politically correct), and avoid humor that is unacceptable to the majority (politically incorrect)? In the majority of churches today I cannot find any evidence of God's presence at all. The Apostle Paul tells Timothy to avoid profane and vain babblings, but in church today the pastors would rather talk about someone going to the bathroom, or someone's dog going to the bathroom than talk about sin and/or the Cross. I even heard one pastor joke about Jesus' diapers. I'm sorry, but this is irreverant no matter how you couch it. In that church the pastors were introducing the use of four-letter words to the membership. If we're going to laugh about Jesus' diapers, then maybe we should laugh at the Harelip's speech impediment. After all, it is a real part of life. No, we don't all suffer from that affliction, but why should that matter? So what if most of us don't lisp? Why is a joke only funny if it applies to everyone? If we all wrote on the walls, then we could joke about it, but since this practice is mostly prevalent in Hispanic/Latino communities it would be an act of racism to joke about it. (by the way, Pollocks are white, and we can say anything we want about whites.) Of course the Black man is entirely left out of the funny elements of the joke, a fact that is probably truly racist. Well, it looks like you have decided to push your favorite brand of humor onto others in the church whether they like it or not, and whether the Bible speaks against profane and vain babblings or not. One more question-why are so many of the bathroom humor churches denying the inspiration of the Scriptures, preaching a get rich message, waffling on homosexuality, waffling on abortion, questioning truth, practicing pagan rituals, and running from the doctrine of sin and the Blood atonement?...Bill in Tacoma, WA
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