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Secular Progressive Words

As chosen to be those which best defend, reinforce and represent a system of Secular Progressive Values such as is found among atheists and other secular-minded people.

by Lloyd Harrison Whitling

 

Good and evil must be strictly regarded according to their effects upon humanity, or as concepts be invalid, for to whatever other worthy task could they be employed but to the service of would-be masters over our rights and freedom to act and to think? Truly evil people must be those who deem evil as good, and aggressively act to perpetuate their inhumane beliefs throughout humanity; elsewise, who else could we legitimately consider evil if not those who would do us harm, or lead us into harming ourselves?

Arguments against the semantic terrorists who occupy the current apparently successful attempts to foist a theocratic government of fascism onto Americans will be mostly counterproductive unless we can learn to cope with the highly refined system of Orwellianism with which they are trained, it seems, from birth. They, who understand little of natural reality unless it fits into their rabid agenda, gullible in their own right, get trained to refer to us as ignorant and immoral savages, and feel free to lodge all kinds of accusations against us as a result of our own untrained ineptness. We are guilty only when we are so trained, or so untrained. By their own words, it is our innocence that makes us guilty.

We, who have had to find our own ways to deal with the world, are disadvantaged because of our late start, our lack of the kind of common understanding that promotes cohesiveness for our own group, and our reluctance to learn the skills for fighting dirty. Church sign: governments

We are so naive that we think truth will, of its own accord, win out over the lies and beguiling deception that belligerent antisecularists sweat to perpetuate under truth's banner. We act as though we can sit back, relax, and let life go on and get better with no active support from our own countering efforts. We, the guardians of natural truth and the prime actors in defense of the American Constitution and its amendments, must act as guards will, in response to threats against that which we stand up to protect, and not as aggressive militants who would make forays into the midst of those armies advancing against us.

 That truth will win without anyone to assert it cannot be true unless natural truth is fully understood and a system of values inherent to it developed by assertive action meant to inform and demonstrate its worth to others like ourselves, who should adopt it and go on to inform the world about the nature of true morality.

Thanks to many contributors for this database.

Superstitious (Religious) Backward Terminology

Secular Usage Replacements
(use these terms and phrases instead)
abortion ending pregnancy; demeaning the value and future of an existent life over one not yet begun; assertion of freedom, and personal responsibility, over theocracy.
antiabortion centralized control over women's lives; ownership philosophy (regarding women); evangelical chauvenism
1altruism Reciprocity
atheists, liberals and secular people anybody of good common sense who disagrees; patriots; free people.
Attacking Christianity or Attacking Christian Interests. Defending Freedom against Christian Radicalism. Defending religious freedom. Defending our secular government against Theocracy. Defending America from those betraying the trust of their fellow Americans. (Properly used, this will assure non-radical Xians you are referring to people from whom they are also defending their own interests.)
belief conclusion; reason; result; as in "The only verifiable evidence ever made available to any of us necessitates a conclusion that gullible religious beliefs are only supported by gulls."
Christianity, Islam, Judaism the Arabic religions; the Arabic cults; Abrahamism; trinity paganism
Clean Sky Act Dirty Sky Act; Smarting Eyes Imperative
compassionate conservatism duping the voters into financing theocracy with public funds; theft; thievery
Conservative regressive; primitive; backward; fascistic; religious spendthrift; public investment avoidance through increased debt.
4Conservative Principles Pretzel Logic; the Doctrine of Inhumanity (see Christianity); fascism; theocracy; slavery
Creationism; Intelligent Design (ID) "Evolution Deniers"

(By Meberman February 16, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this
"I think we need to change the name from “Creationist” to “Evolution Denier” to properly classify them in the same group with Holocaust deniers and any other who chooses to deny the very strong evidence of a given theory or event in favor of their fantasies.")

Critical thought (a misnomer that supports skepticism rather than an interest in learning the truth about something). Analytical thought represents the method of thinking that best supports secularity and reality-derived knowledge. When used together, critical and analytical thought, correctly applied, rely upon a gathering of verifiable evidence rather than mere belief. Critical thought presupposes a skeptical attitude even toward one's own conclusions. Analytical thought presupposes a willingness to analyze according to what data has been made available. Teaming them together in a process of enquiry presupposes a willingness to remain skeptical even when one has decided upon the best current answer.
disbelief scruples; mistrust;  suspicion; challenge; smell a rat; doubt; shock regarding astounding claims coming from apparently irrational people; evidentiary subject not present; concluded due to absence of facts; convinced by lack of material evidence, as in "The complete absence of any civil records mentioning the extremely noteworthy actions presented in the scriptures constitutes a persuasive lack of material evidence supportive of any of your claims." Adherence to atheist principles
Death penalty postpartum abortion
environment common inheritance
Evangelicals Holy Rollers; Dominionists
Execution, the chair, lethal injection mercy killing(s) to Lois L. for this suggestion. Also, revenge killings; post-partum abortions
evil lust, homosexuality, shameful nakedness, etc. genital-based morality
faith (secular equivalent) confidence; conviction; reliable resources; convinced by evidence; convinced by complete absence of evidence; beyond reasonable doubt; persuaded by facts; as in "I am persuaded by a lack of facts beyond a reasonable doubt that religious faith does not represent any kind of truth."
faith (substitutes terms that express doubt about religious faith) con; gull; dupe; deception; deceive, as in "Deception-Based Charities"; incongruous with reality
Family Values Brotherly Hatred (see "Family Jewels"); (see "evil lust")
gay(s) the sacredness of human love; genital morality
God; godly Nature; natural
Godly Creation Natural Accretion; evolution
Healthy Forest act Leave No Trees Behind Act
Intelligent Design Creationism; Idiot Design; Intelligent Design Creationism (always use all three words together to keep attention focused on the origins of this attempt to escape church/state issues) see Creationism
jobs exported support of our common inheritance by paying back society for advantages received through public education provided to displaced workers
lies, lying betrayal of the public trust; betraying one's own followers
3Morals, morés, morality ideals; values; principles; standards, as in "My standards go far beyond simple, self-righteous genital morality."
Nation As A Family Caring and Responsibility; Nurturance; Protection by Enslavement; Bush is a weak president because (such as: "only a man without balls could display his reduced sex drive.")
patriotism submission to herd instinct or mentality; intolerance of cultural diversity; sheepism; sheeple(s); Machiavellianism
plain spoken Orwellian language says the opposite of what it means; pretzel speech
2rant; ranting (as in "Going on a rant"). Aggressive anti-secularism; belligerent anti-secularism; semantic terrorism; religious terrorism
religion contagious insanity; superstition; organized magic; activities spawned from ignorance; choices arising from ignorance or naivety; belief-induced insanity
the religious, the moral people immaterialists (other-worldly people); the gullible superstitious people; the evil religious oppressors; sheeple; the fearful control freaks
revelation, revealed hallucination; hallucinated; psychotic episode
redzoneism (redzonism) Orwellian driving forces inherent to the political atmosphere in areas dominated by radical rightwing credos conducive to rampant republicanism; the doctrines supporting such.
Tax Relief Poverty Relief; Avoidance of paying back to society for benefits received; dues avoidance; investment avoidance; borrow and spend policy
Tax Investment (in one's society)
war, capital punishment, postpartum abortions (murder)
Warfare (see in my glossary) Evolutionary Cannibalism
War on Terror Religious war campaigns; crusade
We answer to the Almighty! Replace agendas and programs with secular values that you support.
The Word of God circular reasoning; anecdotal evidence; hearsay; Laws of Nature (see revelation); theological masturbation fantasies.
Values Human empathy; Responsibilities
Ethics, morality require God and religion "as crooked as a Republican preacher."
   

Empty space just waiting for your

suggestions (see CumBax Pages)
   
   
   
Ignorance is bliss, the old saying goes, and Evangelical Xianity promotes itself as owning the pathway to bliss.

FOOTNOTES:                                 

1: Through altruism, religions attempt to beguile the gullible into sheeplike responses to fear-inducing dogma, based on nothing more than hearsay evidence, to work against their own best interests and betray their own families and societies. The old saying, "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime", forecasts the difference between the results of altruism and practical self-interest. RETURN

2: Any attempts to assert your own views may be met with a charge of ranting, rather than your opponent dealing with anything you said (or wrote). This is a red herring meant to confer guilt from your aggressive opponent back onto you. Don't ever fall for it. Your right to assert your values equals theirs, and your values are more certain than theirs, if you know and understand them.  RETURN

3: Morals derived only from hearsay and unfounded hand-me-down fables have no factual basis for their support, can be shown in many ways to be harmful, and are dangerous to human welfare. Secular values that have been derived from natural science and awareness of natural laws can be demonstrated to be wholesome and good for humanity (whereas secular practice of morality adopted from prominent local religions cannot, and serves only to usurp understanding of natural laws). RETURN

4: Conservatism is a way of promoting juxtaposed principles: What is behind antiabortionism is to guarantee a supply of cannon fodder for warfaring conservative agendas, since soldiers mainly come from the lower classes. Death penalties imposed mostly on members of the lower classes (Oh, and you thought ours is a "classless society"?) and condemnation to soldiery of well-behaved younger members (rich conservative kids don't fight in battles) shows a contrary hidden agenda behind their publicly-expressed premises, is to lower the numbers of those inclined to vote against their agendas (this will work only for so long as they can keep a war going). This, as much as anything else, has contributed to their unwarranted rise in power in the USA. RETURN

 

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