Something I'm willing to blame entirely on W

...the pervasiveness of the term "faith-based," which most recently popped up in this Slate story by David Sarno.
Lauer's firm, Motive Entertainment, is best known for coordinating the faith-based marketing of The Passion of the Christ.
I'm aware that I'm a picky bastard with too much time on my hands, being injured and on Xmas vacation and all. Regardless, I think it's worthwhile to keep a lookout for this sort of uneccesarily circuitous language, which of course always originates with politicians and gradually enters our daily vocabulary. I guess the term applies well here, but it's obvious where the writer got it from. Let's not allow politicians to fuck up our vocabulary. "Faith-based" was first introduced to the general public as a handy euphemism—one that would make government funding of religious organizations seem innocuous (George Carlin writes about this in his new book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (Hyperion), which by the way is excellent). A better alternative in this context would be perhaps "religiously themed." More syllables but rhetorically more direct.