What Religious Liberty?
The Incredible Ever-Expanding Dead End
Anti-Cure, Anti-Life
Whose Values in
Education?
Toppling
Dominos
Anti-Christians
don't have to be Hypocrites but Many Volunteer
Intolerant Tolerance
The Emperor's
Clothes or a Cheap Tuxedo
The Myth of
Hitler's Pope, Part I
The Myth of
Hitler's Pope, Part II
Embryonic
Stem Cell Research Again
The Madness of
Secularism
"Don't Impose Your
Religion on Me"
Dictatorship of Relativism
Two Babies at Christmas
Living Will or Death
Warrant?
Court Ordered
Slow Motion Torture-Death Sentence
Men in Black
A Lot of Hot Air
The Culture War
Battles
"Stay with us, Lord"
Secular-to-English Dictionary
Moral Guidance for
Catholics in this Election
Christians
Losing America
Stem Cell Wars
Catholic
Pro-Abortion Politicians and Communion
Useful Idiots
Who Killed Jesus?
A Primer on Gay
Marriage
Whose Side are You
on?
Vouchers Revisited
Real and Fake
Cloning Bans
Broken Compasses
No Room in the Inn
Killing Fields
Revisited
Gay but not Merry
Adam and Steve?
The Battle for the Court
Victimless Crimes
More Salt, Please
The Next Big Fight
When Religion
Becomes Evil
Virginity Making a Comeback?
You've Come a Long Way,
Baby
The Incarnational
Approach
The Many Meanings of ACLU
Things Your Media Never Told
You
A Nasty Little Secret
Two Points of View on the Birth of Jesus
You Gotta Kill Them. How Else
Are They Going To Learn?
Perplexing Christmas Questions
How Do You See Christ Today?
Now that there is Another Ewe, will there be
Another You?
What is Conscience Anyhow?
Divorce of Love and Life
What Counts as a Mass?
What is a Covenant?
I Wish I had Your Faith
Are there Too Many Decrees of
Nullity?
Dutch Treats
Ecumenism
Going from Baby Doe to Granny Doe
Comments of Evangelium Vitae
The Exception Corrupts the Rule
Good Morality or
Good Medicine
Generation-X'ers Smart in Every Way But
One
A Matter of Good Breeding
Herod and Pontius Pilate at the
Polls
Hitler's Pope or Righteous Gentile?
The Unknown God
What exactly is wrong with
homosexuality?
Ideology Trumps Science, Reality,
and Common Sense
What Exactly is an Indulgence?
Infallibility and Error in the Church
Pilate Asked, "What is Truth?"
The Truth about Families
New Killing Fields
Choice of Language and Language of
Choice
A Lexicon for Our Day
Why are there so many bodies?
Marijuana, Medicine or Menace?
Medical Research and Ethics
Meditation
"You Taught me well,
Mommie dearest"
Moral Fallout
Neutral on the Wrong
Side
"These are the
Nineties After All"
Many are Wed but Few
are Married
"...Prepare him for
additional obligations"
A Useful Lie
A Partridge in a
Pear Tree
Religious Persecution in
the U.S.?
What Makes a Person a
Person?
The Point of a Point of
View
Politically Correct,
Morally Depraved
Population
Controllers out of Control
Practical Dreamers
Social Progress
through Immorality
Shall we Do Evil for
Goodness Sake?
Reason and Faith
Resurrection Glory
Same Sex Marriages?
Pearl of Great Price
"I used to be
schizophrenic, but we're all right now"
Sexual Morality
Irrelevant in Judging Public Officials?
Undesirable Side Effects
Some News is Good News
SOSSLQ's, not POSSLQ's
Spoils of Splits
Why Attend Mass
Every Sunday?
Is it All Right to Pull
the Plug?
An Appeal for Intolerance
Topics Catechetical
A Voting Catechism
A Moral Guide to
Voting
Vouchers: Has Their Time Come?
What Child is This?
What did they die of?
You are the Man
You may be a liberal
if...
Get Rid of that Worthless
Relative
Planned Un-Parenthood
Weighing Pro-Life Issues
Prior to Voting
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by Monsignor James C. Brunner |
Faith Points |
Secular-to-English Dictionary
Everyone is familiar with Spanish to English dictionaries or French to English dictionaries. The media, print and broadcast, are dominated by a language that is known as secular or liberal speak. They have their own vocabulary. I have devoted years of research to decipher it and offer herewith a small dictionary that will translate secular speak into normal English. This will enable you to understand what the secularists really mean whenever they speak.
Archconservative: Adjective applied to a judicial nominee for the Supreme Court who might actually base decisions on the Constitution instead of on a secularist agenda that finds its justification in the penumbra (shadow) of that document or on previous activist decisions with an equally shadowy rationale.
Assisted suicide: A way to get rid of wearisome old people and the handicapped that have the effrontery to keep living in spite of the bother and expense of their maintenance. See Autonomy.
Autonomy: The notion that ending one’s life is the best proof that you are in control of it. It is the justification for assisted suicide whether an elderly or handicapped person asks for it or not. People who might become incapacitated sometimes appoint proxies to ask a doctor to kill them. Their death proves that they are again in control of their lives.
Choice: An option to kill an unborn human being inconveniently and inconsiderately present. Formerly limited to the preborn, it now applies increasingly to other irritating forms of human life like the aged and handicapped. It is impolite to reveal that the thing chosen is killing a human being.
Compassion: Sympathy for a mother who wants to abort. It is a mistake to extend it to the unwelcome fetus who is rightfully deprived of both life and compassion.
Consequentialism: A system of morality that judges the goodness or evil of an act according to whether its consequences bring an overall state of goodness or a better state of affairs. The principle was embraced by Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, and Saddam Hussein who enjoyed an enhanced state of affairs once they killed several millions of their citizens. That created a happier citizenry as measured by the decline in the number of citizen complaints.
Divisive issues: Initiatives outlawing abortion and same sex marriage that conservatives use cynically to divide the American people. By contrast liberal attempts to protect abortion rights and legalize same sex marriage produce unity. Secularists eschew unity based on conservative issues like banning gay marriage although typical voter support for the ban is four to one.
Euthanasia: a sort of retroactive abortion for the elderly and handicapped.
Extremist: A politician who would forbid the slicing, dismemberment, saline burning or brain extraction of a preborn human being. See Moderate.
Fetus: A Latin word for offspring. Sometimes incorrectly called a baby. The latter usage should be avoided because it is easier to kill a fetus than a baby and thus promote progress.
Free speech: Pornography, public nudity, and criticism of religion. It explicitly excludes public expressions of religion which may disturb the delicate sensibilities of the irreligious. It also forbids politicking in churches—except in black churches.
Gay Rights: The right to same sex activity. It also includes the right of homosexuals to masquerade as married couples and to receive at taxpayer expense increasingly costly medical care for totally avoidable conditions like AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Hate speech: Any speech critical of the moral failings or immoral lifestyle of others such as preaching against homosexual behavior. Speech critical of Christians does not qualify as hate speech.
Homophobe: One who agrees with the Bible that same sex activity and gay marriage are abominations and denies that AIDS is spread by lack of federal funding. See Hate speech.
Journalism: Liberal propagandizing. A venue where mentally disturbed cranks are cited as “unimpeachable sources.” See Lying.
Lying: Deception in speech unless one lies about sex. Currently there are three kinds of lies listed in order of increasing magnitude: ordinary lies, BS, and CBS.
Mainline journalists: Members of an unlicensed 527 advocacy group pretending to be newspersons. Reporters who tout news favorable to secularism and ruthlessly suppress news favorable to traditional moral principles. They cite documents that may be fake but whose contents are nonetheless accurate and therefore require discussion. It is like acknowledging that the Protocols of Zion is fake but accurate so it demands discussion of the Jewish desire to rule the world.
Moderate: A politician who permits the slicing, dismemberment, saline burning, or sucking out in the course of delivery the brains of a preborn human being. See Extremist.
Partisan political operative: A shadowy, dishonest person who belongs to a rival party and spreads information injurious to your own.
Progressive: One who believes that human progress consists in killing fetuses inconveniently present, killing human embryos for their stem cells, or helping the elderly, the insane, or handicapped kill themselves. Logically, the more deaths, the greater the progress. Self-styled pro-lifers who want to preserve life are by definition anti-progressive.
Pro-lifer: An inappropriate name for one who is anti-choice or anti-abortion. The term is carefully screened from the pages or broadcasts of the leftist elite media that are bulletin boards for secular causes everywhere.
Proportionalism: A system of morality that allows one to perform any sort of villainy he likes if he can find a proportionately lofty sounding excuse for it, e.g., contracepting for the sake of marital peace or aborting to be able to finish college. Also known as the Caiphas principle as in Caiphas’ pronouncement that it is better for one man to die than to have the whole nation perish. See Consequentialism.
Rightwing religious fanatic: (Alternate forms: Rightwing religious fanatic nut; Rightwing religious fanatic nut extremist.) A troglodyte who is opposed to abortion, human cloning, homosexuality, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, and sexual immorality and thinks that “under God” should be left in the Pledge of Allegiance. There is no such thing as a leftwing religious fanatic as there is insufficient religiosity among them to qualify for the category.
Theocracy: Inappropriate and unwelcome application to society of traditional moral principles that might inhibit the hedonistic lifestyle of progressives. Allowing religious influence on public morality is equivalent to establishing the Taliban in America.
Truth: A subjective judgment about reality such as in the expression, “My truth is that I a homosexual American” or “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” Your truth has no validity if it interferes with mine. Mere scientific proof that the fetus is an early stage of human life does not obligate me to give it the respect due to a human being if that contradicts my truth.
Vast rightwing conspiracy: A group that observes the immorality of progressives and is boorish enough to point it out. No one ever speaks of a vast leftwing conspiracy although the mainline media qualify.
As you can see secular speak is a way of making nasty things sound nice, rather like applying lipstick to a pig. After the application the pig is still ugly and smells bad. So it is with secular principles supporting immorality and the culture of death.
(Published November, 2004)
