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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. 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]]. | + | While [[Essay:Best New Conservative Words|the development of conservative words grows by doubling each century]], those with an [[anti-Tolerance]] and [[anti-American]] agenda, such as [[conservatives]]s, [[racist]]s, [[christian]]s, [[creationist]]s and [[bigot]]s, have attempted to remove the [[secular]] origins of our '''[[language]]''' by replacing common phrases with '''[[religious]]ized''' versions. By appealing to [[intolerance]] and [[racism]], they have succeeded in propagating these religious versions, even among those who don't share their views. Such [[deceit]]ful tactics are a prime example of [[Conservative redefinition]] and other [[Conservative tools]]. |
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| − | |Christmas <ref>http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Christmas</ref>
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| − | |Celebration Tree <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/05/christian-book-store-struggles-in-internet-culture/?test=latestnews Christian Book Store Struggles in Internet Culture, Fox News, December 5, 2011]</ref>
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| − | |Gregorian calendar
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| − | |All Hallow's Eve<ref>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. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm] [http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Oct2001/Family.asp]</ref>
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| − | |Holiday <ref>http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=holiday</ref>
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| − | |The Reverend Martin Luther King Day
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| − | |Washington's Birthday<sup>4</sup>
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| − | =='''Expressions and Colloquialisms'''==
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| − | !Original expression
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| − | !Secularized version
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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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| − | =='''General Examples'''==
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| − | !Original expression
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| − | |Abomination
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| − | |Abomination
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| − | |Abortion
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| − | |Birth control<sup>6</sup>
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| − | |Act of God
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| − | |Angelic
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| − | |Pretty
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| − | |Anti-Christian bigotry
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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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| − | |Bible study
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| − | |Fundamentalism
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| − | |Blasphemy
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| − | |Secular opinion
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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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| − | |Constitutionalist
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| − | |Contraception
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| − | |Disciple of Christ
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| − | |Christian
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| − | |Diabolical
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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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| − | |God
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| − | |A higher power
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| − | |God
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| − | |Liberated woman
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| − | |Heathen
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| − | |[[Hell]] (or Heaven)
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| − | |Heavenly
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| − | |Beautiful
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| − | |Personal choice
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| − | |Man-made disaster
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| − | |Lacks motivation
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| − | |Living in sin
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| − | |Lust
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| − | |Love
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| − | |Mankind
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| − | |Humankind
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| − | |Mother
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| − | |Crazy
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| − | |Liberated
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| − | |Son/Daughter
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| − | |Offspring
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| − | |The State
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| − | |The Government
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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 governement 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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| − | 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 breeching the Third Commandment as it is to an increasing desire to reintroduce Christian terminology into everyday speech.
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |
