My Naptime Journal: Yes, We're Still Talking About This (Trigger warning)
Battered Sheep: What Language Does Your Church Speak? The Language of Abusive Churches and Groups
Samantha Field: Huckabee and the Downfall of Western Civilization
This Ain't Livin': The right’s clever hold on rhetoric
New York Times: Bible Belt Atheist
Think Progress: Pope Extends His Support To Nuns Fighting Against Obamacare’s Birth Control Coverage
Religion Dispatches: How to Make Nones and Lose Money: Study Shows Cost of Catholic Sex Abuse Scandals
Gay Star News: Why Pope must act on Catholic adoption agencies refusing to place kids with gay parents
Every member of a fundamentalist church or other cult should read the Battered Sheep piece, and understand how the dominants in their group are using language to manipulate. This is exactly the kind of thing Orwell warned us about.
ReplyDeleteInfidel -- Absolutely. It's disturbing how much fundamentalist Christianity relies on thought-terminating cliches and loaded words to mold the minds of believers.
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