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So I was reading an article on National Catholic Reporter calling on black clergy to avoid opposing gay marriage<\/a>. \u00a0Not surprising. \u00a0Remember, most of the Catholic Church in America is liberal. \u00a0So the article takes the usual liberal spin on the gay issue as presented by modern liberalism that, hopefully, the Church will finally come around and accept. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But as I read it, I kept seeing that word \u201creligionist.\u201d \u00a0Religionist. Religionist. Religionist. \u00a0What does that even mean? \u00a0It seems I hear it more and more. I know what it is supposed to mean. \u00a0I\u2019m not stupid. \u00a0Part of the triumph of the left is its ability to label people, stereotype people, and then call on the masses to hate and seek the elimination of those people and institutions based upon these carefully crafted terms.<\/p>\n

Which isn\u2019t anything new by the way. \u00a0After all, it\u2019s why we don\u2019t use terms like nigger and faggot. \u00a0We understand that they were terms adopted and used to justify bad things that hurt innocent people. \u00a0But in that wonderful pattern of modern liberalism, we study history to learn from it. \u00a0That is, learn how we can use the very things we once condemned because, well, we\u2019re awesome! <\/p>\n

It reminds me of the changes in the term fundamentalist that I thought about the other day<\/a>. \u00a0Even Pope Francis has jumped on the bandwagon, and most Catholics, Orthodox and secularists alike now act as if they have difficulty distinguishing between a person who shoves a stick of dynamite up a baby\u2019s bum to kill innocent people and a little old lady in a fundamentalist Baptist church who thinks the first Chapter of Genesis should be read literally.<\/p>\n

I wonder how long it will take before the somewhat vaguely defined, but clearly understood, word \u2018religionist\u2019 joins the ever growing pool of terms used to designate those whose guilt resides in their refusal to accept the new gospel of the modern way. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"