FATHER FORGIVE HIM, HE KNOWETH NOT WHAT HE JUST DID-ETH!!

I have over time figured out that different societies consider different things socially unacceptable and offensive...even sinful maybe.
Like how showing somebody your five fingers in yankee would mean hi or maybe bye at best. but those of us who know what it means know that it is worth knuckling up and knocking the winds out of the perpetrator. Where i come from, it is a disrespectful reference to your momma...if you r not a bastard, you will take that seriously!!
Anyways, to a large extent, swear words (i.e. fuck, shit, arse, et al) are absolute No-Nos in american society when social appearance is a major issue, if you are on a bus and you use these words and older folk hear you, if looks could kill, you will just drop like a fly. it is even more serious in church because it can even be called a sin when religion is involved; these words are bleeped out of national TV programs and never used in speeches (for the most part) AND DEFINITELY NEVER IN CHURCH!!! However, in naija, we tend to hear these words on TV, hear older folk using them without flinching...even when giving testimonies yea? like "... and i prayed and asked God to help me so i dont fuck this exam up because if i do, i will be in serious shit; and he answered my prayers." Its not a major issue, its...allowed. I actually had to tell my mum like 2 years ago that it was not OK to say things like that in public and she was like "ehn hen? i did not know o."

I said all that to say this...When people change environments really drastically, there should be an orientation program that can help them deal with that cultural shock. A welcome to Yankee...or Jand 101 course to be taken within the first 2 weeks of arrival where the dos and donts of the new environment are learnt, just so they dont go and do things like this guy did in my church today.
I will say in advance tho, that no be him fault...him no know...him dey try put the point across...ok, this is what had happened.

Choir practice on saturdays and my oga brought this new guy, said he just came fresh off the boat...and he is an alum of the greatest of all Universities; Obafemi Awolowo Uuniversity (a reason for me to be cool wif him, shallow as that sounds). For some reason, when people just land from naija, they go out of their way trying to impress people, not to be condescending cos i did it too when i first came and had an argument about the pronunciation of POPEYES Chicken...you dont even want to know how i pronounced it, but i digress. So ol'boy is on his best behavior, blasting phonetics from here to high heavens...but its ok, JJC and we understand naa.
A little altercation erupts and our friend feels the need to contribute (mind you, we are at choir rehearsal in church) his contribution goes thus:
"Praise the lord...in my little experience of music, everybody has different callings and not everybody can lead worship and also take solos. some can do one thing and some can do other things...you can't ask someone who knows only how to lead solos to lead the church in worship...the person will FUCK up..."
I will like to tell you the rest of his contribution but that was the last thing i heard before we all went into multiple seizures...convulsion...not as if we dont sometimes use those words BUT NOT IN CHURCH YOU...UGH!!! Apparently dude was clueless as to why the whole place went into confusion...he thought we did not agree with his point and proceeded to use the word a few more times to drive home his point...somebody finally let him know that we agreed with him but his language was inappropriate and he was just looking at us like WTF (there i use the word again...at least i no dey inside church)

I am sure Jesus understands that this dude did not know... honestly... FATHER FORGIVE HIM, HE KNOWETH NOT WHAT HE JUST DID-ETH!!!