I never claimed that all Christians were Nazis. I merely claimed that the English language is mutable.
If you for a moment think that "Conservative Christian" in political ads in South Alabama is anything but a dog whistle. I think you are mistaken. Why the distinction between "Conservative Christian" and "christian"?
I am arguing that the crazies have co-opted your terms. And they're very good at that. There are more Christians that fall outside of the Southern Baptist umbrella then that are in that umbrella. But if you don't diligently defend against them, "Christian" will mean nazi. It does in South Alabama. Probably not the country at Large.
We all must be diligent against having other people redefine words. My very lovable brother-in-law uses "woke" as a derogatory term. It is incumbent upon me to disabuse him of that. After all, what is the opposite of woke? Asleep? In tranced? Hypnotized?
I think it's incumbent upon all of us to be diligent. I am a secular humanist. However I do find God to be a useful concept in the same way that I find the square root of -1 to be useful.
No. I don't want to talk about higher math. It's been 30 years since I took calc 4. And anyone who would value intelligence above all other characteristics is not someone I would want to associate with.
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