“It is not possible to build a culture around a denial of God-given standards, and then arbitrarily reintroduce those standards at your convenience, whenever you need a word like evil to describe what has just happened. Those words cannot just be whistled up from the place where we exiled them. If we have banished them, and their definitions, and every possible support for them, we need to reckon with the fact that they are now gone” (Rules, p. 118).
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In other words, “No justice-no peace.”
“Thee and Thou” are two words we have (semi)-lost and with them the subtle distinction they provided
The theme Ayn Rand’s book Anthem was the recovery of the word ‘I’ by man.
Orwell, (if i recall correctly) wrote that collectivists destroyed words in order to limit thought to proper channels.
The solution is the vigorous use of these words especially when they are called ‘hateful’ or ‘divisive’ or ‘un-christian’. Why? Well, God is the Creator–i.e. he is creative and expressive; we, having been created in His image should be creative and expressive as well.
So no more “axis of evil”? Only “axis of people on the wrong side of history who haven’t evolved to our common understanding that international social norms recommend against chopping men’s heads off, then distributing video of said chopping for the purpose of terrifying one’s enemies”? Man, it’s too bad we don’t have a single word for that…