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Thieves Hijacking the Language of the Moral Tradition

By ADF Alliance Alert

OrthodoxyToday.org: What happens then when people leave Christianity and want to promote ideas about morality that violate the moral tradition? They have only one option: Hijack the language. They use the terms of traditional Christianity but mean very different things by them. Words don't mean what they used to mean. Language gets inverted, turned upside down. Do this long and loud enough, and in less than a generation the new meanings take hold. When hijackers use the language of the moral tradition, they implicitly claim to stand inside that tradition. It's only a pose of course, but their pose fools many people.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 25, 2011 (boomark / email).