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Paedophobia:  An oddly modern antipathy toward children. Perversiarchy:  A reprobate society governed by those committed to concupiscence. Peterpantheism:  An environmentalist dogma that refuses to face facts or to grow up. Pharmer:  A drug lord. Piccasso Porn:  The images from scrambled adult cable channels. Pietoid:  An adherent of Pietism; the opposite of someone committed to true piety. Pluriscuity:  The promiscuous vision of radical pluralism that claims an equal …

Obaminable: Declaring as right what is undeniably wrong; post-modern bully pulpit. Obstropulous: Seeming to be helpful while really making things more difficult. Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a big mistake, like accidentally sending a personal e-mail to everyone in the office. Olibarky: Cranky, patronizing, and oh-so-pious sermonizing from the modern politically-correct elite. OMG-iddy: Effusive enthusing on …

Naftathoughts:  Lingering doubts about the economic and cultural benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreements. Namenesia: Inexplicably forgetting the name of someone you know very well. Nanachronym: Those instantly ubiquitous internet and texting abbreviations; Narceclessia: A sleep disorder that afflicts modern Christians causing cultural detachment and irrelevance in times of grave societal danger; the church asleep in the light. Nefariography: A biography of …

Maastwrecked: The mess that the European Economic Community and the New World Order have made of Europe. Machiavalium:  Political narcotics dispensed in an effort to control the people. Macjob:  A mindless, tasteless, and valueless task undertaken merely for money. Maledictaphobia:  A fear of saying anything offensive or negative even in the face of dire wickedness. Mirthgirth: All that extra weight gained over the holidays. Monkeythump: A …

Legalossolalia:  The strangely unintelligable “tongues” spoken only by lawyers. Libnet:  The symbiotic network of fringe-left media, academia, and government that infests Washington’s corridors of power. Limbaughtomy:  The surgical removal of welfare-state piffle, drivel, and swill; performed by transmitted airwaves.  Litegeist:  The substantivelessness of American pop culture. Lithurgy:  The wholesale denigration of tradition, glory, and substance in modern evangelical worship; the malady of lethargic liturgy. …

Kahootenany: Reposting un-Snopesed silliness on the internet. Kanoodledoodle: Whiling the hours away on sundry social media sites. Kantankerosity: The inclination to argue about anything, to snark about everything. Kavorked: To be on the receiving end of legalized euthanasia. Kerfufflefluffle: A fierce controversy over nothing; a mountain out of a molehill; majoring on the minors and minoring on the majors.  Keypal: An internet friend; a thoroughly modern …

Jabberjockey: Radio talk show host. Jargonauts:  The elites who steer the course of our language; logogogues. Jaundaucracy: A culture devoid of courage; a society led by men without chests. Jeopardous: Risky business; hazardous behavior. Jiggywidget: A faddish doo-dad or dig-bat or thingamajig. Jiterati:  A subset of the cultural elite; the professional whiners and worriers. Jocosiation: A ridiculous or hilarious assocation. Journalying:  The tendency of modern journalists to …

Ideolatry:  The idolatrous worship of ideology. Iducation:  The self-centered psychologicalization of modern secular education. IMglish: The special abbreviated, acronymic language of instant messaging, sms, and texting: omg, lol, bff, btw, cya, galgal, igbok, etc. Impuritan:  The modern ethical paradox: the new morality of immorality. Indignatary:  A culturo-political celebrity who has built a career and a reputation on feigned moral outrage. Infobahn:  The web’s information super-highway. …

Heretickle:  Popular falsehoods that are happily accommodated for the sake of church growth. Heterodoctor:  A thoroughly modern and politically-correct university professor. Hillarious:  A silly, shallow, superfluous, and statisfucating worldview. Histonarcolepsy:  Sleep-walking through history. Historectomy:  The surgical removal of any historical perspective from contemporary discussions. Hollywired:  The marriage of the computer and entertainment industries. Homodoxy:  The new homosexual orthodoxy taught in America’s schools Homophilia:  Trendy depravity. Homotextuality:  The …

Gadaboutag: An orphan HTML tag that’s misdirects your web searches. Garpage:  The editorial page of virtually all daily metropolitan newspapers; often useful, however, for the bottoms of bird cages. Generica:  The smothering uniformity of pop American culture. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high on a bridge or a building. Gleemail: Those inspirational emails forwarded by a friend or coworker that may or may …

Fascinate:  Enthusiasm for consolidating all of society and culture into the hands of Big Government and Big Business—the tell-tale signs of Mercantilism (aka National Socialism). Fascindustrialism:  Cooperative monopolization between the public and private sectors; “It’s the economy, stupid.” Fauxment:  An artificial controversy; the stock and trade of TV news. Fauxpolitiks:  The dismal reduction of political discourse to the trite, the picayune, and the …

Empty-Vee:  The vapid contentlessness and valuelessness of current TV programming. Environmentia:  A worldview dominated by whatever the latest ideological rant may be. Errstats:  Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Establishmentality:  The inability to think beyond accepted institutional/ideological parameters. Ethoplegic:  A malady that suddenly paralyzes the ethical scruples of elected  officials once they arrive in Washington. Europa Nervosa:  A condition resulting from the geo-political instability of Europe. Europhoria:  The ecstatic …

Ecclesiophobia:  An inordinate fear of anything and everything to do with the church or people from the church actually getting involved in our communities. Ecnalubma: A rescue vehicle which can only be seen in the rearview mirror. Ecologian:  A theologian whose worldview is dominated by the world. Ecominous:  The doomsaying vision of pessimistic economists. Econausea:  One possible side-effect of an over-exposure to sundry …

Datadiddling:  The digital manipulation of facts. Deatherapy:  The medicalization of murder. Demigraphics: A poorly composed, wretchedly distracting PowerPoint presentation. Demockeracy:  Making a mockery of constitutional freedoms and liberties in the name of constitutional freedoms and liberties. Designosaurs:  Perpetuators of bad, out-dated design. Destinesia: Arriving at a destination but having forgotten why you went in the first place. Dipsomanagerial:  The insatiable, often periodic craving of government …

Cacophantasy:  The noisome notions of mindless debauchery that pass for “having a good time” among the young and restless. Celefeign:  Someone who is famous for being famous—a celebrity with no discernable talent. Cleresy:  Religious error perpetrated under the cloak of respectible clerical authority. Codependustry:  The therapeutic industry that has been built up around the specious notions of pop-psychology. Compascism:  Coercive pseudo-compassion—another name for our …