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Wrestling for Truth with ChatGPT

THE PERILS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Bob Weil

Every technological development, at least up until now, has created a new tool that can be pressed into the service (or disservice) of man.

Junkspace: The Empty Slogans of Our Politicized Linguistic Regime

PURIFYING THE DIALECT OF THE TRIBE

Randall B. Smith

To live in the truth, we must want the truth. That means doing what we can to get at the reality hidden behind the empty slogans of partisan ideology.

“Politics and the English Language.” By George Orwell.

LITERATURE MATTERS

Michael S. Rose

Language should reflect reality. If it doesn’t, what possible limits could be placed on misleading, manipulative language?

“Homosexuality” as a Philological Problem

ON THE DAMAGE BEING DONE BY DUBIOUS TERMINOLOGY

R.V. Young

Neither the words “homosexual” or “homosexuality” nor their equivalents in any language known to me existed before the late 19th century.

America’s Linguistic Revolution

NOTES FROM THE WORD CEMETERY

Frederick W. Marks

Where do we stand in relation to George Washington’s claim that godlessness leads to immorality, and immorality to a breakdown in democratic governance?

The Great Awokening: The Puritan Roots of the Social Justice Warrior

Jason M. Morgan

Social Justice Warriors behave like cult members. They are little Cromwells who demand Robespierre-level ideological purity of every single person.

Is Love Really All You Need?

GUEST COLUMN

John A. Perricone

When love is encased in truth, it radiates peace and societies prosper. Without truth, love is a silk noose strangling the souls of men and squeezing the life from society.

Giving an Appearance of Solidity to Pure Wind

When considering Muslim tolerance, one might inquire: Are Muslim attitudes toward drinking alcohol tolerant? And how about free speech? Women's rights? Freedom of religion? Music and Art?

On the Deconstruction of Language

UNLIMITED INTERPRETATIONS, UNLIMITED DIVISIONS

Cecilia Huckestein

All our institutions are infested with corrupt language, whose impetus is to tear down all present realities and replace them with vain and avaricious desires.

Big Sister Is Listening to You

States expend considerable effort rewriting statutes using "gender-neutral vocabulary" and manipulating our language in the service of a broad sociopolitical agenda.

Faith Journey or Road to Hell?

ENTER BY THE NARROW GATE

Richard Anderson

Can someone who has ignored every proscription of the Catholic faith be described as being on a "faith journey"?

'I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It'

In most daily newspapers prolifers are called "anti-abortion" and pro-aborts are called "pro-choice." But these are euphemisms.

"Grandfathering" Gay Priests

Curiously, one doesn't say "grandmothered." Had the term been "grandmothered," it would certainly have been banned by the Language Nazis.

Parent Is a Noun, Not a Verb

RE-ENGINEERING CULTURE

Cliff Price

When we firmly reject using the language crafted by the ideologues of modernity, we strike a blow for sanity.

Chrismukkah: It's In the Cards

A newly minted interfaith "holiday" is a multi-cultural mishmash of cherished rituals and customs with "no dogma and no rules."

Ms. Goodie Two-Shoes Rhetoric

If we can't say "policemen," why do we get to say "gunman"?

Fuzzy Language Does Not Belong in Vatican Documents

Why can't these people say what they mean?

A Clever Translation of the Bible

is a Bible with "extraordinary power" - extraordinary satanic power.

Berkeley's Linguistic Outlaws

Phony language is reprehensible, but language has a way of exacting its own revenge.

Oh, to Be a Victim!

Victim status is highly coveted in our effete culture.

What's "Offensive" & What's Not

THE TRIUMPH OF SUBJECTIVISM

Alice von Hildebrand

That it can be legitimate to feel offended should not lead us to the conclusion that every time a person feels offended, his response is justified.

Lumps, Bumps & Meditation

The effects of linguistic re-ordering of priorities are far-reaching.

Spreading the Disease

A pervasive modern sentiment suggests that "each person has an inalienable right to be considered good, however he behaves."

The Linguistic Minefield

Is inclusive language a reality of current English, or merely a contrivance?

Designer Bibles

Dale Vree

Zondervan, publisher of the NIV, planned a so-called inclusive-language version of the NIV that would eventually replace it, but was pressured to stop.

Jesus Found Guilty of Hate Speech

America magazine bellyaches about how Catholicism has historically expelled "heretical Christians" from its midst.

From Butchered English To Butchered Theology

Soon we'll be expected to refer to the Gerperson language instead of the German language.

Our Vast Pudding, Who Art in Heaven, Muddled Be Thy Name…

Promiscuous fuzzing of images and programmatic neutering of prayers

Zorro & Bathsheba

My, the difficulties of inclusivity are well-nigh preternatural

The Dumbbell Feminese Dialect

"Maximum possible fidelity to the sacred Scriptures"?

The Intolerant Ideology of Tolerance

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

"Inclusive Language": Is It Necessary?

SPEAKING NATURALLY VS. SPEAKING ARTIFICIALLY

Kenneth D. Whitehead

A Case Against "Inclusive Language"

THEOLOGY MATTERS

Kristen West McGuire

What's Wrong With 'Values'

THE MUSHY WORLD OF MORAL RELATIVISM

Terence Ball

Jesus in the Dictionary

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

Lying & Other Deceptions in Communications Are Always Wrong

EVEN "WHITE" LIES

Germain Grisez

The Words of God

GUEST COLUMN

Michael Nelson

American hymnals and Bible translations must retain the authority that only memory, accuracy, and tradition bring, yet also be modern enough.

The “Freedom” Liturgy

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

Christopher Derrick

Human beings tend to be more interested in myth than in factual reality. Confucius said it is the chief business of government to organize ceremonies.