These facts about TJ are undisputed. Essentially you have called me a liar because I preferred to use the word "creationist" in its radical, primary meaning, to refer to someone who believed in a Creator, as betty boop as shown:
creationism n. Theology. 1. The doctrine ascribing the origin of all matter and living forms as they now exist to distinct acts of creation by God. Compare evolutionism.rather than the PC version from modern, liberal dictionary editors.
So when I responded to you, "He is a DEIST", it was not as though that didn't count, or that I was asserting that he was an orthodox Christian, it was specifically to say he and just about everyone else at the time, and most certainly orthodox Christians of one stripe or another, believed that that the universe was created by a Creator. I mean, what else was there at the time? There were probably a few atheists, and all the people who believed that the universe is eternal, but that is exactly the sense in which I used the word. The meaning of a word is not "stretched" or "lost" by using it in its primary, or more radical sense; it is lost by what C.S. Lewis called "verbicide", or, the deliberate destruction of words. You undoubtedly have the right to your preferred usage of the term, and so do I.
Cordially,
Lewis was exactly right, Diamond. Thank you for making this point. The "Left" can hardly be trusted with writing dictionaries! It seems they have contempt for any word or other symbol whose primary or "root" meaning does not support their purposes. So they either change the meaning; or if they cannot do that, they heap contempt on the word...and beyond that, on that of which the word is a description... the vandals.... :^)