The Devil's Dictionary

How Our Language is Being Weaponized by The Left

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." - Mark Twain

Words matter. We all know that. They’re how we communicate, how we share our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. But lately, it seems some people are more interested in twisting those words around than in telling the truth. Sure, words and their meanings evolve over time. But let’s not kid ourselves: there’s a big difference between the natural evolution of language and the deliberate redefinition of words to manipulate a gullible public.

Take the latest advice from the Vermont Department of Health. In a Facebook post dated August 28, 2024, they encouraged everyone to “use terms that cover the many versions of what family can look like.” Sounds harmless enough, right? A little bit of feel-good, inclusive language. But dig a little deeper, and it turns out their advice is for families—yes, like Mom and Dad—to avoid using gender-specific terms like “son” or “daughter.” Instead, they suggest using neutral terms like “kid” or “child.”

Words are powerful. They shape our reality. They tell us what’s true and what’s not. When used properly, words reveal the truth. But when they’re twisted, stretched, or replaced, they can create an alternate reality—a false reality. Or, as it’s usually known, a lie.

This is nothing new. The devil’s been playing this game from the very beginning. Remember the Garden of Eden? Satan’s first act of temptation wasn’t offering Eve a shiny new apple—it was redefining God’s words. When Eve told the serpent that God had forbidden them from eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, warning that “they would die,” Satan responded with a lie: “You will not surely die.”

What’s happening here? A redefinition of the word “die.” Satan tried to paint it as something desirable—“your eyes will be opened,” he promised. “You’ll be like God.” But we all know how that turned out. Death wasn’t some metaphorical eye-opening experience. It was literal. By twisting the meaning of “die,” Satan lured Eve into disobeying God, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Fast forward to today, and it seems Satan is still at it. Through the influence of people who stand against God and all He represents, there’s a movement to redefine our language and strip it of its original meaning.

Jesus said, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female?” (Matthew 19:4).

Yet today, our culture insists there’s no such thing as male or female—or, if there is, they’re just two of an endless number of genders on a broad spectrum.

Remember when President Biden’s 2021 budget request replaced the word “Mother” with “birthing person”? That wasn’t just a harmless change. It matters. Words like “mother” and “woman” have specific meanings. Only women can get pregnant. And when they do, they’re called mothers. And instead of calling an adult human female a “woman,” they now want us to say “people with uteruses.” And there are countless other terms that have been rebranded to sound more palatable while also being more misleading. Here are a few, for example:

• Abortion = “reproductive rights”

• Sex change surgery = “gender affirming care”

• Illegal alien = “undocumented citizen”

• Prostitute = “sex worker”

• Fat = “plus-sized” or “body positive”

• Riot = “fiery, but mostly peaceful”

And don’t even get me started on the pronoun police. “He” and “she” have been around forever, but now we’re being told to use “they,” or “ze,” or “zim,” or “zir,” or any other concoction that sounds made up. It’s like someone’s launched a word missile straight into the heart of our language, creating a chaos of words that suggest, in the end, there is no truth.

And that’s exactly what Satan wants. Jesus warned us about this. He said that Satan is a “liar and the father of lies,” and those who lie are his children.

In John 8:44, Jesus laid it out plainly: “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

So, what are we to do in the face of this onslaught against truth? Hold fast to what is true! Stand firm against the language police and their followers. Refuse to be bullied into abandoning the truth for the sake of some politically correct nonsense. Don’t let yourself become a victim of their linguistic game of Twister. Stand up and say, “No thank you, I’m not doing it.” I will call my boys, “sons” and my girls “daughters.” I will call pregnant women “mothers” and fathers “dad” and every other word that so accurately describes actual reality.

As Jesus said, it’s the truth that sets us free—spiritually, physically, and maybe even politically.