by Lloyd Harrison Whitling

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This page will mainly develop into a list of framing terminology intended for secular use. Words adopted for it will be those which elicit secular values, especially Secular Progressive values. Their use will be to help in explaining secular progressive values, and for their defense. I recommend adopting them for common usage when speaking and writing. They are important to that usage. They support your secular world views.

One member of a discussion group, Don Turner, whose colorful language never fails to inspire me, inspired this page with his use of "late term abortion" in reference to soldiers sent to die in foreign countries. It is a takeoff from the rightwing reference to abortion in the late months of a pregnancy. I suggested "Post-Term Abortion" as a direct, almost self-defining term to adopt.

Post-Partum Abortion may be even better, used in place of 'murder'. It requires no explaining about a word that refers to aborting human life as wrong at any stage, and just as demanding of protection and sanctity for all its duration. Anyone against abortion, here is where to start. All that remains is to settle "at exactly what point does life begin?", which is meat for another discussion in another page.

Dominionism/Dominionist refers to the groups of those who have usurped the Christian religion and abandoned its message in preference for one that attempts to set the stage wherein they can force the return of God to rule upon the earth. Often referred to as 'Evangelical Christians' or "Conservative Christians', they are not Christians at all, and are causing bad feelings about Christianity on the outside, and about their manipulations of Christians on the inside. Many Christians, just now beginning to realize they have been duped and made a mockery of, are now hearing themselves being referred to as "not real Christians" by the usurpers, and have begun to turn against them. What is called Theocratic Dominionism is tied to Christian Reconstructionism (see below), the rise of which Pat Robertson receives credit for by onlookers for having set the stealth agenda to reclaim America for God. Theocratic Dominionism can be defined as "the seizure of earthly (temporal) power by the church as the only means though which the world can be rescued; only after the world has been 'rescued' can Christ return to 'rule and reign'." [2] A more extreme version, Theonomy, seeks to reinstate Old Testament civil code, for example, putting to death (by an electric chair versus stoning) all homosexuals and gluttons (from < http://www.halexandria.org/dward810.htm >).
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Smog Initiatives (also referred to as "Dark Skies" or "Gray Skies" by progressives) are those actions by the government to turn back environmental requirements to the smoky days of yesteryear.

Regressives and Regressivists refers to conservative activists who sponsor and argue for bills that undo the accomplishments progressives have inspired on many fronts.

Reconstructionist/Reconstructionism is the branch of Judaism founded in the United States in the 20th century that regards Judaism as a religious civilization and questions the doctrine that the Jews are God's chosen people. A reconstructionist is an adherent to that doctrine (American Heritage). "Christian Reconstructionism", whose goal is to eliminate religious freedom, seeks to impose a narrowly defined Bible-based political, religious, and social order (a theocracy). Any thing outside the church's interpretation would be suppressed. Nonconforming  Christian churches would no longer be allowed to hold services, organize, proselytize, and so forth. Even blasphemy -- however "they" want to define it -- would be criminalized. When found guilty, they would be executed -- thus raising the specter of religious genocide. What's in your future?

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"To deny a right to the experience of pleasure is immoral unless that denial can be justified by a valid presentation of how pain will result from that experience in an amount that would render the expected pleasure regrettable; or, if it can be shown that pain will be induced in others innocent of any involvement. The role of science in moral issues should be to test that, predict that, and find harmless ways to demonstrate that."

— L. H. Whitling in the eBook, Secular Morality —