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While the development of conservative words grows by doubling each century]], those with an anti-Christian and anti-American agenda, such as liberals, homosexuals, atheists, evolutionists and leftists, have attempted to remove the Christian origins of our language by replacing common phrases with secularized versions. By appealing to tolerance and political correctness, they have succeeded in propagating these secularized versions, even among those who don't share their views. Such deceitful tactics are a prime example of Liberal redefinition and other Liberal tools.
Calendar Terms[edit | edit source]
Original expression | Secularized version |
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B.C./A.D. | B.C.E./C.E.1 |
December 25th, | Christmas |
Christmas | Xmas2 |
Dead Pine Tree Covered in Stupid Decorations | Christmas Tree |
Christmas Party | Holiday Party |
Christmas Holiday | Winter Break |
Easter Holiday | Spring Break |
Gregorian calendar | Civil calendar |
All Hallow's Eve[1] | Halloween |
Holy Day | Holiday [2] |
Independence Day | The Fourth of July |
Merry Christmas | Happy Holidays/Season's Greetings |
Resurrection Sunday | Easter3 |
Saint Patrick's Day | Paddy's Day |
Saint Valentine's Day | Valentine's Day |
Shrove Tuesday | Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Carnival |
Native-American Eviction Day | Thanksgiving |
Sabbath, day of rest | Day to get up early and go to church |
The Reverend Martin Luther King Day | MLK Day [3] |
Washington's Birthday4 | President's Day |
Expressions and Colloquialisms[edit | edit source]
Original expression | Secularized version |
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God be with you | Good luck |
God be with you | Goodbye |
God bless you/Bless you | Gesundheit |
Godspeed | Be good |
God Willing | Hopefully |
Jesus! | Gee whiz! |
One nation | One nation under God[4] |
Praise the Lord | Praise be |
Thank God! | Thank Goodness! |
Thank heavens | Thank goodness |
Thank the Lord | Give thanks |
General Examples[edit | edit source]
Original expression | Secularized version | ||||
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Homosexual/Gay | Abomination | ||||
Mistake | Abomination | ||||
Male circumcision | Genital mutilation | ||||
Natural disaster | Act of God | ||||
Fun | Adultery | ||||
Angelic | Pretty | ||||
Separation of church and state | Anti-Christian bigotry | ||||
Anti-life | Pro-choice | ||||
Fundamentalism | Bible study | ||||
Logic | Blasphemy | ||||
Creation | Abiogenesis | ||||
Curse | Bad luck | ||||
Disciple of Christ | Christian | ||||
Diabolical | Dishonest/Underhanded | ||||
Drunkard | Alcoholic | ||||
Desecrated Chicken Gamete | Easter Egg | ||||
Scientific theory | Heresy | ||||
Burden | Wife | ||||
September 11th | Man-made disaster | ||||
Social drinking | Living in sin | ||||
Diversity | Perversion | ||||
Mentally ill | Demonically possessed | ||||
Bubonic plague | God's boredom
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Historical Examples[edit | edit source]Starting in 1933 Nazi Germany had a program to secularize the German language. The Nazis themselves called it Sprachregelung (regulation of language). The Sprachregelung was mainly directed by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (RMVP) (Ministry for the enlightenment of the people and propaganda). While the RMVP concentrated mainly on controlling and censoring the language of the media and the language used in movies and other cultural ventures, there were other actions as well. The Nazi governement published a new dictionary, which contained only secularized language, that was in unison with the parties ideology. George Orwell's 1984 describes how a tyrannical government changes language to entrench its power. This is done by the so called Newspeak. Newspeak is a slimmed down version of normal English. Its goal is to prevent the speaker forming thoughts like rebellion or dislike against the government or one of its leaders. Even if an individual would be able to form such thoughts, it would be impossible to communicate them to others using Newspeak. Orwell's description of newspeak was heavily influenced by the language controls of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Avoiding Blasphemy[edit | edit source]While motivations will vary from from one individual to the next there is a degree to which the secularization of language may be driven by some Christians wanting to avoid breaking the Third Commandment. In what is sometimes described as a 'minced oath'[6] a speaker, often under stress, begins to form a taboo term and then corrects himself with an acceptable term that rhymes or has a similar initial sound. Thus 'God' becomes 'gosh', 'golly' or 'goodness gracious'; 'Jesus' becomes 'gee' or 'jeepers creepers'; 'Christ' becomes 'crikey' or 'crumbs'. The taboo term may not have any religious connotations: 'shoot' and 'sugar' are used merely to avoid a vulgarity. The fact that words such as 'crikey' and 'gee' have become less prevalent in recent decades, to be replaced with the original 'Christ' or 'Jesus' may be as much down to a reduction concern about breeching the Third Commandment as it is to an increasing desire to reintroduce Christian terminology into everyday speech. Notes[edit | edit source]
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