Leaders Command the Language
The leaders of our society command the language. Homophobic is a word developed by anti-christians to attack those of us who are anti-sodomy. Through use of language, the world defines us as afraid of man. The issue isn't a fear of man, but a fear of God. (Should that make us theophobic?) We're all familiar with the media's use of words to manipulate and slant the verbal picture.
Closer to home for filmmakers, on a much less volatile issue, is the term 'graphic novels'. Fifty years ago, it was understood that comic books were silly, inconsequential form of art, primarily written for children, or at least childish individuals.
But today, a generation of people wrapped in the world of fantasy, have renamed comic books as 'Graphic Novels', trying to redeem their unbalanced love affair with non-truth.
I have seen an illutrated version of Pilgrims Progress in the form of a comic book, and though the imagery couldn't add a whit to the brilliant words of John Bunyan, it was helpful for beginning readers in our family. So I'm not against the comic book format as a legitimate form of storytelling, but I am against verbal tomfoolery to hide the shamefulness of indulging in a glorified coloring book addiction.
As society progresses further into the hollywood frenzy, we lose not only sentence structure (it's like, totally gone from here, so right!), but we also forfeit any transcendental meaning to our words. No longer does the word 'awesome' have the power it did in the 17'th century. We are defiling the English language with meaningless nonsense.
As if speaking in tongues weren't bad enough, even when folks are trying to communicate properly, our vocabulary is so weightless we are forced to speak twice as long to say half as much.
It's time that Christians became the leaders in language once again.
All this to say, Nathaniel Darnell just created a blog post to help us understand and command terminology.
Answering a Question on Biblical Patriarchy by Nathaniel Darnell.
I found this post to be refreshing, and very helpful. I hope you will as well.
~ In Christ, John.
Closer to home for filmmakers, on a much less volatile issue, is the term 'graphic novels'. Fifty years ago, it was understood that comic books were silly, inconsequential form of art, primarily written for children, or at least childish individuals.
But today, a generation of people wrapped in the world of fantasy, have renamed comic books as 'Graphic Novels', trying to redeem their unbalanced love affair with non-truth.
I have seen an illutrated version of Pilgrims Progress in the form of a comic book, and though the imagery couldn't add a whit to the brilliant words of John Bunyan, it was helpful for beginning readers in our family. So I'm not against the comic book format as a legitimate form of storytelling, but I am against verbal tomfoolery to hide the shamefulness of indulging in a glorified coloring book addiction.
As society progresses further into the hollywood frenzy, we lose not only sentence structure (it's like, totally gone from here, so right!), but we also forfeit any transcendental meaning to our words. No longer does the word 'awesome' have the power it did in the 17'th century. We are defiling the English language with meaningless nonsense.
As if speaking in tongues weren't bad enough, even when folks are trying to communicate properly, our vocabulary is so weightless we are forced to speak twice as long to say half as much.
It's time that Christians became the leaders in language once again.
All this to say, Nathaniel Darnell just created a blog post to help us understand and command terminology.
Answering a Question on Biblical Patriarchy by Nathaniel Darnell.
I found this post to be refreshing, and very helpful. I hope you will as well.
~ In Christ, John.
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