“Great insight” is the response of choice when a person in Christian culture says something spiritually poignant. Sometimes the word “brother” or “man” is appended to the phrase. If they choose to elaborate they often will say “God is really using you to teach me something.”

This saying runs amok in Christians’ blog comments and on Twitter. Do a search to spy on it in its natural habitat.

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