Terminology watch

Feel free to use this at your next cocktail party when you want to impress strangers with your up-to-the-minute knowledge of religious terminology: Talibangelist. It’s the newest term coined by Savage Love advice columnist Dan Savage. Not entirely sure of the precise definition, but going on past precedent, I don’t think he intends it as […]

Feel free to use this at your next cocktail party when you want to impress strangers with your up-to-the-minute knowledge of religious terminology: Talibangelist.

It’s the newest term coined by Savage Love advice columnist Dan Savage. Not entirely sure of the precise definition, but going on past precedent, I don’t think he intends it as a compliment — either to the Taliban or evangelicals.

I won’t go into detail about Savage’s other potty-mouthed terminology — this is a family-friendly news blog, after all — but needless to say, if you Google the term “Saddlebacking,” a not-so-nice reference to Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, you’ll see what I mean. I won’t get into what he said about a former senator from Pennsylvania.


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