Food for Thought: the Language-Does-Matter edition

"Emboldened by the breakdown of traditional morality, the advance of the new creed [materialism] is essentially no more than the triumph of the animal impulse, as instinctive and blind as appetite, released at long last from the restraints of supernatural sanctions. Its most obvious casualty has been language...Ironically, as words have been drained of meaning, so have the very material comforts and acquisitions for which truth has been casually sacrificed."
One Common Faith