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The Use of Language in Church Spaces
There's a common kind of set of language that is used across probably thousands of these kinds of spaces around the world, not just in my part of New Zealand. And it's like it's become a shared language between those spaces. So things like the way in which change might be talked about, for example. Change could be conceived of as a really good thing when talked about by the person who has the power to instigate change. The weaponizing of kind of forgiveness can do the same thing. People who kind of have very little power often told to forgive whether it's,. I don't know the flaws of the church or of the leader or if somebody who hurt them who had power