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Redefining the Christian brand

Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly points out that the right has successfully co-opted the term “Christian” to the point where the press and many corporations use the term to refer exclusively to the subset of Christians who are totally out of their minds.

This is yet another example of the right’s successful abuse of the language, which Orwell predicted, and the right has now perfected. Too many people have accepted the use of terminology such as “pro-life”, for anti-abortion but anti-all other life, “values voters”, for bigots, etc.

There may be a silver lining to the fact that the crazies have stolen the “Christian” brand name. It may help swell the growing group of people who describe themselves as having no religion, a trend that, if we can only speed it along. People who have no religion, we can safely say, are more open to things like science and reason. Given the problems confronting us, it might be a good thing to have more people like that around.

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