Political Codewords

Past words include Neo-con and Fundamentalist. Joe Carter covers a big one: theocracy. he defines Carter's Law along the lines of Godwin's Law:

As the number of religious conservatives expressing an opinion on a moral or political issue increases, the probability that someone on the political left will invoke the term “theocracy” approaches one.

Most of the individuals throwing around the term misunderstand both the nature of the theocracy and the meaning of their opponents:

Phillips, for instance, believes that the rising dominance of Baptists in American Protestantism is ipso facto evidence of a theocratic trend. What he appears to have missed is that Baptists can’t even tolerate a centralized church government much less a central government controlled by the church. A theocracy led by Baptists makes as much sense as anarchists establishing a centralized government.

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