When Words Mean Their Opposite

A favorite game of our modern age is to keep words intact, but actually mean the opposite by them.

It started pretty early on with the sodomy movement, by use the term "gay" to mean sodomite, despite higher incidences of disease, suicide, sever depression, mental problems, and histories of physical and emotional child abuse. Doesn't sound very happy to me.

Now "marriage" means a contract to engage in any conceivable sexual act between any consenting adults - yet the contract is meaningless anyway. It's just a phantom triumph to attack people who understand the family is society, without which all crumbles. That is, it once meant a very specific necessary for society, but it now means absolutely nothing.

Post-marriage triumph we now see the words "man" and "woman" have also apparently become meaningless, because it might be offensive (maybe even a hate crime soon) to use them as actual representatives of truth.

One of the justices who used his position of power to enforce sexual sin on a nation is called a Catholic. So again we see the meaning of a word completely undermined, or redefined. A Catholic should be someone who consents to the moral teachings of the church, even in its modern and more liberal form. To agree to a common worldview, to believe in the God of the Bible, etc.

Now though, it seems many people who call themselves Catholic mean it in the same way as crossdressing men call themselves a woman - a mask to throw on or off as one wills. So the definition of Catholic for some is in reality the opposite of what it used apparently means - not a love of God and His will, but a focus on self and what "I" will.

Because this is so widespread in our society, it seems one should not trust any words or labels to be what they claim. Just as some Catholic priests openly engage in sexual relations, it might be wise to doubt a Bishop, Cardinal, or other authority actually represents anything similar to the title in any organization tolerating deceit. We are left to knowing individuals as individuals, to get at their actual beliefs, practices, and behavior - it may be they are speaking a foreign language and we have to interpret the truth based on observations of reality.

We should expect to deal with lies and deceit on a daily basis. I think the only exceptions might be small homogenous communities where a common belief overrides the mainstream culture (maybe your family, a particular monastery or smaller religious society, very active and temple-going Mormons, etc.).