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While [[Essay:Best New Conservative Words|the development of conservative words grows by doubling each century]], those with an [[anti-Christian]] and [[anti-American]] agenda, such as [[liberal]]s, [[homosexual]]s, [[atheist]]s, [[evolutionist]]s and [[leftist]]s, have attempted to remove the [[Christian]] origins of our '''[[language]]''' by replacing common phrases with '''[[secular]]ized''' versions (See also: [[Religious language]]).
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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 [[deceit]]ful tactics are a prime example of [[Liberal redefinition]] and other [[Liberal tools]].
 
  
 
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==Expressions and Colloquialisms==
 
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|God be with you
 
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|Good luck
 
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|God be with you
 
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|Goodbye
 
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|God bless you/Bless you
 
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|Gesundheit
 
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|Godspeed
 
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|Be good
 
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|God Willing
 
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|Hopefully
 
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|Jesus!
 
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|Gee whiz!
 
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|One nation under God
 
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|One nation<sup>5</sup>
 
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|Praise the Lord
 
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|Praise be
 
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|Thank God!
 
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|Thank Goodness!
 
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|Thank heavens
 
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|Thank goodness
 
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|Thank the Lord
 
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|Give thanks
 
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|Do good
 
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==General Examples==
 
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|Abomination
 
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|Mistake
 
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|Abortion
 
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|Birth control<sup>6</sup>
 
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|Abortion
 
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|Reproductive Rights
 
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|Act of God
 
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|Natural disaster
 
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|Adultery
 
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|Cheating
 
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|Adultery
 
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|Fooling around
 
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|Angelic
 
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|Pretty
 
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|Religious Suppression
 
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|[[Separation of church and state]]
 
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|Anti-life
 
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|Pro-choice
 
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|Atheistic
 
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|Secular
 
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|Bible study
 
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|Fundamentalism
 
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|Blasphemy
 
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|Secular opinion
 
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|Blasphemy
 
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|Religious "freedoms"
 
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|Blessed
 
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|Lucky
 
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|Chosen lifestyle
 
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|Innate characteristic
 
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|Communist
 
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|Liberal
 
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|Constitutionalist
 
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|Birther
 
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|Contraception
 
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|Protection
 
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|Covetousness
 
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|Inequality
 
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|Creation
 
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|Abiogenesis
 
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|Curse
 
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|Bad luck
 
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|Disciple of Christ
 
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|Christian
 
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|Disciple of Christ
 
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|Wingnut
 
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|Diabolical
 
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|Dishonest/Underhanded
 
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|Domestic Terrorism
 
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|Workplace violence
 
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|Drunkard
 
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|[[Alcoholic]]
 
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|Easter Egg
 
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|Spring Sphere [http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=459668], Chocolate Egg
 
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|Father
 
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|Old man
 
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|Fertile
 
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|Breeder
 
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|Flood
 
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|Myth
 
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|Freedom Fighter
 
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|Terrorist
 
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|Gender confusion
 
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|Living one's truth
 
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|Glory
 
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|Praise
 
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|God
 
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|A higher power
 
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|God
 
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|Mother Nature
 
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|God-fearing
 
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|Intolerant
 
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|God-given
 
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|Natural
 
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|Godless
 
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|Secular
 
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|Golden Rule
 
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|Altruism
 
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|Govern
 
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|Rule
 
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|Harlot
 
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|Sex worker
 
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|Harlot
 
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|Prostitute
 
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|Harlot
 
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|Slut
 
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|Harlot
 
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|Empowerment
 
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|Harlot
 
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|Liberated woman
 
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|Harlort
 
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|Feminist
 
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|Heathen
 
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|Multicultural
 
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|[[Hell]] (or Heaven)
 
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|Afterlife
 
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|Heavenly
 
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|Beautiful
 
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|Heresy
 
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|Scientific theory
 
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|Heresy
 
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|Freedom of Opinion
 
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|Heretic
 
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|Crackpot
 
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|Holy matrimony
 
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|Civil union
 
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|Homosexual
 
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|Gay
 
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|Homosexuality
 
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|Lifestyle choice
 
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|Husband or wife
 
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|Significant other/life partner
 
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|Immoral
 
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|Personal choice
 
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|Islamic Terrorism
 
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|Man-caused disaster <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/03/17/terrorism-is-man-caused-disaster/ Terrorism Is a 'Man-Caused' Disaster?]</ref>
 
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|Lazy
 
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|Lacks motivation
 
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|Living in sin
 
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|Shacking up/cohabitation/domestic partnership
 
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|Lust
 
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|Love
 
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|Mankind
 
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|Humankind
 
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|Meek
 
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|Weak
 
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|Miraculous
 
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|Amazing
 
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|Mother
 
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|Parent
 
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|Morality
 
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|Social Oppression
 
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|Nature
 
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|[[Social construct]]
 
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|Perversion
 
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|Diversity
 
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|Possessed
 
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|Crazy
 
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|Possessed
 
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|Influenced
 
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|Pray
 
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|Plead
 
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|Prayer/blessing
 
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|Moment of silence
 
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|Principled
 
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|Extremist
 
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|Prison
 
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|Correctional center
 
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|Pro-abortion
 
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|Pro-murder
 
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|Providence
 
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|Lucky break
 
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|Rebuke
 
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|Hate speech
 
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|Reckoning
 
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|Accountability
 
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|Religion
 
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|Spirituality
 
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|Religion
 
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|Superstition
 
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|Righteous
 
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|Law-abiding
 
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|Sacred
 
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|Respected
 
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|Sanctify
 
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|Set apart<ref>See Jeremiah 1:5 in the [[Feminist Bible]].</ref>
 
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|Saintly
 
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|Well-behaved
 
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|Sex before marriage
 
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|Liberated
 
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|Sin
 
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|Crime
 
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|Lifestyle Choice
 
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|Sodomite (generally)
 
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|Gay; LGBT
 
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|Sodomite (in antiquity)
 
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|Male shrine prostitute
 
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|Sodomy
 
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|Relations
 
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|Solemn
 
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|Dignified
 
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|Son/Daughter
 
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|Offspring
 
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|Soul
 
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|Spirit
 
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|The State
 
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|The Government
 
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|Terrorist
 
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|Unborn baby
 
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|Fetus
 
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|Virgin
 
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|Young woman
 
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|Wicked
 
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|Antisocial
 
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|Wicked
 
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|Naughty
 
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|Witchcraft
 
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|Wicca, (Neo-)Pagan
 
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|With child
 
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|Christian Name
 
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|Given Name, First Name, forename
 
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|maudlin
 
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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 government published a new dictionary, which contained only secularized language, that was in unison with the parties ideology.<br />The sad culmination of the ''Sprachregelung'' was in the vocabulary for the ''Endlösung''. <br />''Humans'' became ''units'', ''murder'' became ''deportation'' etc.<ref>Gerd Simon (Universität Tübingen): Art, Auslese, Ausmerze... etc.: Ein bisher unbekanntes Wörterbuch-Unternehmen aus dem SS-Hauptamt im Kontext der Weltanschauungslexika des 3. Reichs</ref>
 
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[[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.
 
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==Avoiding Blasphemy==
 
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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 [[The Ten Commandments|Third Commandment]]. In what is sometimes described as a 'minced oath'<ref>http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/minced-oath.html</ref> 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 breaching the Third Commandment as it is to an increasing desire to reintroduce Christian terminology into everyday speech.
 
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[[File:Donald John Trump.jpg|200px|right|thumbnail|[[Donald Trump]], courting the vote of religious conservatives, said, "If I become president, we're gonna be saying Merry Christmas at every store ... You can leave happy holidays at the corner."<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/donald-trump-iowa-rally/ Donald Trump's pledge: 'We're gonna be saying Merry Christmas']</ref>]]
 
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The 21st century is expected to be a time of the decline of [[atheism]] in terms of its global market share and religious conservatism/[[fundamentalism]] is expected to grow in both the developing world and in the developed world (see: [[Desecularization]]). There are a [[causes of desecularization|number of causes]] of desecularization in the developed world (and the world at large), but two of the primary causes are the [[Atheism and fertility rates|higher fertility rate]] of religious conservatives and immigration of the religious into developed countries.
 
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The 21st century may see a growing desecularization of language.
 
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[[Donald Trump]], courting the vote of religious conservatives, said, "If I become president, we're gonna be saying Merry Christmas at every store ... You can leave happy holidays at the corner."<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/donald-trump-iowa-rally/ Donald Trump's pledge: 'We're gonna be saying Merry Christmas']</ref> CNN reported about this incident, "Trump supporters in the room said it was precisely Trump's aversion to [[political correctness]] that attracted them to the colorful candidate."<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/donald-trump-iowa-rally/ Donald Trump's pledge: 'We're gonna be saying Merry Christmas']</ref> See also: [[Atheism and Christmas]]
 
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* Contrast with [[Essay:Best New Conservative Words]]
 
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* <sup>1</sup> Sometimes C.E. is an abbreviation for "Christian era" instead of "common era", but this [[CE|also conceals the historical basis]] due to Jesus Christ being Jewish. Christianity would not exist as a separate religion until much later.
 
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* <sup>2</sup> The 'X' in "Xmas" was originally an abbreviation for the Greek letter "chi" translated as "Ch", though the abbreviation eventually became a means of "[[Liberal censorship|crossing out Christ]]".
 
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* <sup>3</sup> Easter was originally a pagan festival, upon which Christianity would later apply the [[Resurrection]] of Christ and surrounding events (such as the [[Crucifixion]] on [[Good Friday]]). "Resurrection Sunday" is often used to emphasize the Resurrection of Christ rather than the pagan holiday.
 
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* <sup>4</sup> Washington's Birthday was February 11 in the Julian calendar, while Lincoln's Birthday was February 12 in the Gregorian. Under the Gregorian calendar, Washington's Birthday would be February 22. Thus Washington's birthday would be more accurate. ([http://usparks.about.com/od/historicalparks/a/Presidents-Day.htm source])
 
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* <sup>5</sup> This was part of the original [[Pledge of Allegiance]]. "Under God" was added in the 1950s at the request of President [[Eisenhower]]. ([http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm source]) However, atheists such as [[Michael Newdow]] have been trying to remove the phrase "under God" from the Pledge through the federal courts ([http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=138325 source])
 
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* <sup>6</sup> [[Pro-choice]] people often use the phrase "birth control" regardless of whether conception has occurred.
 
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Revision as of 01:56, December 6, 2016

RESTART THE PAGE, AND PUT FACTS ON IT! Secularism = Religion is Neutral in Government you mentally retarded ignorant twats!

Calendar Terms

Original expression Secularized version
B.C./A.D. B.C.E./C.E.1
Christ's Mass Christmas [1]
Christmas Xmas2
Christmas Tree Celebration Tree [2]
Christmas Party Holiday Party
Christmas Holiday Winter Break
Easter Holiday Spring Break
Gregorian calendar Civil calendar
All Hallow's Eve[3] Halloween
Holy Day Holiday [4]
Independence Day The Fourth of July
Merry Christmas Happy Holidays/Season's Greetings
Pascha Easter Sunday3
Saint Patrick's Day Paddy's Day
Saint Valentine's Day Valentine's Day
Shrove Tuesday Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Carnival
Thanksgiving Turkey Day
The Lord's Day Football Sunday
The Reverend Martin Luther King Day MLK Day [5]
Washington's Birthday4 President's Day
  1. ↑ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Christmas
  2. ↑ Christian Book Store Struggles in Internet Culture, Fox News, December 5, 2011
  3. ↑ All Hallow's Eve was originally the pre-Roman pagan Celtic holiday of Samhain's Day. In 835 Pope Gregory IV moved All Saint's Day, which celebrates the lives of Catholic martyrs and the communion of saints, to November 1. Thus, Halloween is not itself a Christian holiday, but the evening before the Catholic feast day. [1] [2]
  4. ↑ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=holiday
  5. ↑ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c103:6:./temp/~c103JkPHc3::
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