I have been quietly irritated with the prevailing “political correctness (PC)” movement for years.  I cannot be quiet any longer.

This practice of “correcting” perfectly good words in the attempt to be more kind, considerate, and tolerant is soul-destroying.  There is a reason that” …In the beginning there was The Word…”, not some meaningless drivel which every thinking person knows are euphemisms for the right words.  Why was the Word in the beginning?  Because words create.  The right words can heal, empower, enlighten, and spur imagination to soaring heights.  Euphemisms turn brains into mush, replace thinking with mindless reaction, and attack the very core of sentient beings:  the ability to think for ourselves and make decisions based on faith, fact, and actions that have not been sanitized for popular consumption.

If you call black white, is it then white?  No.  It’s still black, but your hearer may be deceived.  Conversely, if something is white, and you decide to spray paint it black, is it?  No.  It’s still white, but someone has gone to a lot of trouble to cover that up, and we all know about cover-ups, don’t we?

Who was the brilliant person who thought taking away truth from the classroom was an aid to learning?  How do you educate, in the purest sense of the word, if your aim is to preach revisionist concepts and destroy the ability to think in your students?  But perhaps I’m being too harsh.  Perhaps good teachers manage to foster thinking covertly, but isn’t it horrible that doing so requires undercover operations?

I am amazed at how quickly the ability to think, reason, and act for ourselves has been usurped by this God-forsaken need to misname and misrepresent.  Add to this the ubiquitous call of technology–cell phones, computers, etc.–and you have the recipe for the disaster that our nation’s population currently enjoys in the destruction of verbal and written communication–simple but vital communication between parents and children, children and friends, teachers and students, between friends, and actual and prayerful communication with God, without Whom we can do nothing.

And this last is the most important:  if you are not honest in your words with which you think and speak, how can you then be honest with yourself and with God?  For those of you who do not know Him, be assured that He knows you, and that while His Grace is still available to everyone, His is the one opinion that matters for your eternity, and God does not use the mincing language of deception.