A cursory scan of various religious right web sites reveals an interesting rhetorical change among the wackos. The phrase "secular humanist" is out; the term "post-modernist" is in.
What on earth possesses these dimwits? Apparently "post-modernist" means to them something like "denies moral absolutes." However, since that's what they accused those naughty "secular humanists" of doing, why the vocabulary change? Post-modernism is really an academic fashion, now largely spent and falling on hard times, that is associated with French pseudo-philosopher Jacques Derrida. I'm pretty sure that your average right-wing pew potato has never read Derrida and wouldn't understand Derrida even if he did read him, so what could "post-modernist" possibly mean to such folk? It's just more incoherent babble from a decadent, dying political movement that itself is now largely spent and falling on hard times. Seen in that light, maybe the word change is appropriate after all!
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