[MichaelZuo]

> The reality is that terminology is a treadmill - terms get “used up” as they’re laden with connotations and baggage, forcing us to find new terms, ad infinitum.

Perhaps for those lacking courage.

There are plenty of real world examples that demonstrate people, including sizeable organized groups, are capable of doing otherwise, at least for a few hundred years.

e.g. Vatican hardliners sticking to their canon.

[dragonwriter]

I dunno, the Vatican seems a perfect example of people needing to come up with new terms as old ones get “used up”, even when the ideas don’t change.

I mean, that’s pretty much the reason why we have the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” rather than the “Congregation of the Holy Inquisition” and “Dicastery for Evangelization” rather than “Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith” (or, and this perhaps indicates how the name had worn out better, in Latin short form “Propaganda Fidei”.)