Forty years after Menninger\u2019s observation that the word \u201csin\u201d was disappearing, we have a potential explanation.<\/p>\n
Menninger\u2019s observation fits into a scenario where the Public Cult of Progressivism (which was constituting itself at the time, along with the private cults of the New Age Movement) discouraged the term \u201csin\u201d.\u00a0 Instead of \u201csin\u201d, they pronounced a litany of objections, complaints, irritations, annoyances, insults, grievances, and false expectations.<\/p>\n
So instead of the pejorative \u201csinner\u201d, terms such as \u201cpolluter\u201d, \u201cracist\u201d, \u201csexist\u201d, \u201chomophobe\u201d and similar words were coined.\u00a0 That also explains why the term \u201cpolitically incorrect\u201d joined the lexicon as a derogatory catch-all word.<\/p>\n
Ironically, this new litany of Progressive perjoratives was acceptable to Behaviorists and Psychoanalysts, because, in principle, they were \u201cdescriptive\u201d hence \u201cneutral\u201d terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forty years after Menninger\u2019s observation that the word \u201csin\u201d was disappearing, we have a potential explanation. Menninger\u2019s observation fits into a scenario where the Public Cult of Progressivism (which was constituting itself at the time, along with the private cults of the New Age Movement) discouraged the term \u201csin\u201d.\u00a0 Instead of \u201csin\u201d, they pronounced a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n