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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

Original expression	Secularized version
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	Halloween
Holy Day	Holiday
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
Washington's Birthday4	President's Day

Expressions and Colloquialisms

Original expression	Secularized version
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
Praise the Lord	Praise be
Thank God!	Thank Goodness!
Thank heavens	Thank goodness
Thank the Lord	Give thanks

General Examples

Original expression	Secularized version
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 Names Original expression Secularized version Christian Name Given Name, First Name, forename Historical Examples 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. The sad culmination of the Sprachregelung was in the vocabulary for the Endlösung. Humans became units, murder became deportation etc. 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 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' 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 1 Sometimes C.E. is an abbreviation for "Christian era" instead of "common era", but this also conceals the historical basis due to Jesus Christ being Jewish. Christianity would not exist as a separate religion until much later. 2 The 'X' in "Xmas" was originally an abbreviation for the Greek letter "chi" translated as "Ch", though the abbreviation eventually became a means of "crossing out Christ". 3 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. 4 Washington's Birthday was February 11th in the Julian calendar, while Lincoln's Birthday was February 12th in the Gregorian. Under the Gregorian calendar, Washington's Birthday would be February 22nd. Thus Washington's birthday would be more accurate. (source) 5 This was part of the original Pledge of Allegiance. "Under God" was added in the 1950s at the request of President Eisenhower. (source) However, atheists such as Michael Newdow have been trying to remove the phrase "under God" from the Pledge through the federal courts (source) 6 Pro-choice people often use the phrase "birth control" regardless of whether conception has occurred. References See Also Politically correct Liberal creep Opposition to Christianity Contrast with Essay:Best New Conservative Words Transmigration of Words in Religion: an essay