Your Good Deeds Are A Used Tampon
That’s an odd quote to hear from the pulpit of your church on a Sunday morning. Kind of graphic, but it gets the point across. I decided to look it up a bit myself. The passage being referred to is in Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”
Oh, by the way, I’m referring to the Holy Bible… the one us crazy Christian folk read, just in case you’re just tuning in. If this bothers you then you are waaaay too sensitive. Try reading my post on eating babies. Well, we do! We eat baby cows. It’s called veal. At least I do.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes… Tampons. I decided to verify the quote made from stage and lookup the meaning of the text from the passage and indeed that is the original meaning. Not actually tampons, but menstrual rags or clothes. Here’s a link to the Strong’s Concordance lookup. See for yourself.
The chapter starts out talking about how awesome and glorious God is. It talks about how God acts on behalf of those who remember His ways and those who gladly do right. It then reveals the reality of the human condition. We tried to do it our way, but we failed. We continued to sin against God’s ways and He became angry. It then talks about our righteousnesses being like filthy rags.
Take the absolute best person on Earth and he will fail. Nobody is perfect. Compare anyone’s righteousness with God’s perfection and it looks and smells like… well… a used tampon.
There you have it.
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This good deeds/tampon comparison is more evidence we need to get our God idea into the 21st century.
This is a very rare moment in my life, I am utterly speech less and have no comment. For anyone who knows me this is an amazing feat. Good post.
Interesting! That’s a rather unique way to put the idea across, but people gets it.
Well, ScottO I know you’re a lot like me… a visual guy. So I’m glad I could make your morning cup of coffee that much tastier.
That’s the first time I’ve actually thought of dirty rags as referring to used sanitary pads or tampons! I’ve always read the verse and thought they just referred to the rags I have in the kitchen after I’ve cleaned up.
Great post!
Thanks, Sicarii for the feedback. Thinking of the “rags” in that sense brings a lot more power to the verse… at least in my feeble mind.
Not feeble at all, I think it’s a very apt way to think about it that way, because a dirty rag in the kitchen can certainly be washed clean, but not a used sanitary pad or tampon.
Once used, it’s discarded.
Great post and blog. Just curious… I wonder if you ever have the same frustration as I do? As a pastor of a large church, I have close to 1,000 readers a day on my blog, but still have a very low authority on Technorati. I’ve learned that this is because I don’t have enough links to my site.
I was wondering if you would be willing to put in a link exchange with me at http://www.robsingleton.net. If so, please send me an email to robtherev@gmail.com showing me where you’ve linked it and I will do the same.
Look forward to hearing from you!
Pastor Rob Singleton
As a woman I am terribly offended by this. Why do you think it is okay to compare a completely normal and healthy bodily function (which without it, we wouldn’t be able to bear your oh so precious children) to the sins and evil of humanity? I am disgusted and dissapointed at yet another attack by “Christians” on women. Go to hell.
Wow! I certainly never meant to put women down. I was raised with three sisters, I am married and I have two daughters. I have a very high respect for women… and their bodily functions, without which mankind would not exist. I’m terribly sorry you were offended.