Biblical B.S.

I've gotten some feedback on using the term "B.S." regards the Church' teaching about Christmas.  Some folks evidently consider that well-known expression "street language," and inappropriate for talking about scripture.

Understanding that objection, "B.S." still seems a good characterization of "religious nonsense"...especially that taught by the Church.

That's what Paul called the fleshly "righteousness which is in the Law" that he had been raised in and trained in; Philippians 3:4-8.  In the NASB's verse 8, he dismisses it all as "rubbish" in comparison to "knowing Christ Jesus my Lord."

Paul uses the word "skubalon"...literally, what is "thrown" (balon) to dogs (kyon).  Vines' says the word refers to "...any refuse, as the excrement of animals, offscouring, rubbish, dregs...[anything] worthless and detestable."

Vines' citations from secular Greek writings suggest that "dung" was the common meaning of skubalon in Paul's time: and so the King James version translates it in Philippians 3:8.

What of our time ?  Do we ever hear fleshly "religious" teaching in our churches that's as "worthless and detestable" as animal dung, unworthy the good news of Christ's reign ?  Can such rubbish rightly be called "B.S." ?

So it is.