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Have you ever said "Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship with Jesus Christ" or words to that effect? Have you ever specified some specific self-identified Christian as "not a true Christian" based upon the extremity of immoral acts?
Yeah, you're going to have to stop doing that.
In George Orwell's 1984 one of the ways The Party had to control the populace was through language control. By tightly controlling the words that could be used and their potential definitions, it attempted to eliminate concepts from thought and strictly limit the thoughts that could be expressed.
We can tell when you do that.
As an aside, this is will not be the only tip to reference 1984.
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Yeah, you're going to have to stop doing that.
In George Orwell's 1984 one of the ways The Party had to control the populace was through language control. By tightly controlling the words that could be used and their potential definitions, it attempted to eliminate concepts from thought and strictly limit the thoughts that could be expressed.
We can tell when you do that.
As an aside, this is will not be the only tip to reference 1984.
( Read more... )
