It doesn't take a grand conspiracy theorist to see that the current climate of the justice system et al is on a campaign to control the 2024 presidential election to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't rise again. Mind you, I'm no Trump fan, but it's quite clear. The media has beat this "insurrection" claim to death despite the fact that the Senate absolved him and the FBI determined no insurrection took place. Regardless, we all know Trump did it because ... well ... they told us so. And we'll take him to trial for it ... carefully scheduled for the critical campaign time so that, regardless of the outcome, "Trump committed insurrection" will still simmer in the minds of the public. But it's not just the Trump thing. There are sufficient reports that the government, the media, Big Tech, Big Pharma, the FBI -- the list is long -- have conspired on multiple things with false, misleading, or obstructed information to control your life and my life to arrive at their preferred outcome. And it's still going on, unaddressed.
It's called "weaponizing." You take something that is not a weapon and you turn it into one. Using the justice system to control opponents has been around for a long, long time. The media was an information outlet until it realized it could control people by controlling the information -- restricting, releasing, or even fabricating it. One popular method of weaponization uses words as weapons. You know this. If you can compare your opponent to Hitler, it no longer matters what your opponent believes; he is evil personified. "Now, hang on a second. Shouldn't we hear what he has to say?" "Why? He's evil!" So we come up with catchy terms like "homophobic" and "anti-trans", "libtard" and "right-winger". Once "racist" meant "someone who evaluated on a racial basis" and now it means "white." Once "sexist" meant "someone who preferred one sex over another" and now it means "men." Mostly (and ironically) we weaponize words to end dialog. If you can call someone a "hater," no further discussion will matter. Never mind that ad hominem is a classic logical fallacy. Never mind that the term may no longer mean what you thought it meant and may not even represent the truth. Never mind that attacking the messenger doesn't evaluate the message. We've accumulated more weaponized words than any hardcore 2nd Amendment militia has guns and use them frequently to kill conversation and ideas.
Weaponized words are the most popular method for radicalization. Build in catchphrases that will make them think they're in the right while teaching them the wrong. Weaponized words are the weapon of choice for those wishing to control your thoughts. It happens all the time. Sadly, weaponized words are largely responsible for the assault on free speech. Universities, for instance, will not allow those with "wrong ideas" to speak on their campuses precisely because the opposition has prejudiced the students with weaponized words. And you can be sure that "hateful" and "evil" and other weaponized words will be used to push Christianity out of the public eye. "No, we can't talk about it. You can believe what you want as long as you don't, you know, believe it enough to talk about it, tell us about it, live it ... that sort of thing." We are promised "all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Tim 3:12) and we have had it way too easy for way too long. And once they engage a war with words, other weapons are sure to follow. Count on it.
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Is it just me, or does it seem that this process has been accelerated in recent years. I've known for most of my life that Christian thinking in the world was on a decline, but it almost seems we've reached the end of a slope and found a cliff. At least when it finally snaps we'll see a cleansing of the church.
This is indeed a scary picture of the future. We’ve come a long way from the “sticks & stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me” saying from my youth. Of course, it’s not only the words that do damage; it’s also the ideas behind the words and the agenda behind the ideas that are threats. Your statement, “Sadly, weaponized words are largely responsible for the assault on free speech” strikes me with its irony. I think the issues of free speech and free thought will come down to this, another saying I heard long ago: “A mind that’s changed against its will is of the same opinion still.”
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