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[Glen Kippel]

No, I am implying that it is kind of dangerous to label oneself with such a
"fuzzy" definition.  It could too easily be interpreted as Marxist, even
though you may not mean for it to have that word value.  It would be better
to come up with another descriptive.

As an example, Barna Research has shown that a majority of people holding an
evangelical theology prefer not to call themselves "Evangelicals."  For too
many others, especially those who don't know the difference between
"evangelical" and "evangelistic," the word has become something of a
perjorative.  So they prefer to call themselves "Bible-believing Christians"
or, less often, "Born-again Christians."

Would there be a more user-friendly word than "progressive"?

On 9/14/06, Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Glen wrote--
> >
> >Not so, Donna,  The word "progressive" has been used as a synonym for
> >"Communist" for something like 100 years.  In its latest manifestation,
> an
> >example would be the Progressive Labor Party, http://www.plp.org/
>
> Actually, we are both right.  Many times in the history of language,
> words have taken on several meanings.  The word "conservative" used
> to mean somebody who was opposed to progress, somebody who wanted
> things to stay the same as they had always been.  These days, the
> word refers to a political strategy.  Similarly, there are
> "progressives" who are pretty close to Communists, like the ones that
> you mentioned.  But that doesn't mean all people who have used the
> word "progressive" were communists-- when I first heard it in the
> 70s, as I said, it was a political word that had nothing to do with
> communism.  The right wing has for years tried to claim all liberals
> are commies, but Glen, you know that isn't true, and I hope that
> isn't what you are implying.
>
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