Glossary

BCE - Abbreviation for "Before Common Era" which coincides with BC

CE -  Abbreviation for "Common Era," which coincides with the Christian era or AD

CLOOB - Complete Load of Old Bollocks (copyright Tony Youens)

Dog Ma -  a bitch

Faith - Unsupported belief. It is useful to replace the word faith in any context with this handy alternative.

Female Circumcision - Female genital mutilation

Honor Killing - familial murder

Montel Williams - Unprincipled jerk

Religion - Organized superstition

sCAM - so-called Complementary and Alternative Medicine (please see The Quack-Files for more on this highly apt acronym).

Spiritual Leader - theocratic dictator (coined, I think by Ophelia Benson)    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weasonableness - There is reasonableness then there is its slimy evasive counterpart, weasonableness. A Fuddism.