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On 7 November 2016, so-called viral evangelist Joshua Feuerstein — who is probably best known for a 2015 Facebook video in which he ranted that Starbucks hates Jesus because its holiday cups were solid red and bore no religious symbols — posted a video capture and text alleging that hiphop artist Jay Z, who had appeared with his wife, singer Beyonce, at a Hillary Clinton campaign event, had rapped the words Middle finger to the Lord, nigga grip, I'm a boss during his performance: We'll grant you that if the standard being applied were offensiveness, the real lyrics are arguably no better than the erroneous ones. But the implicit claim isn't simply that the words are offensive; it's that they blaspheme Jesus — which, in fact, they do not. The technical term for misheard words or phrases is mondegreens, of which the annals of pop music are chock-full. The example before us is actually quite common and often turns up in Internet search results. If you look up the lyrics of Dirt Off Your Shoulder on Google, for instance, this is one of the top results (and it comes from Google Play itself!): As Hemant Mehta of Patheos demonstrates, however, middle finger to the Lord makes no sense in the context of the rest of the song:
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