Unregenerate................................

By a kind of philological accident (which is probably no accident at all, but one of the more subtle expressions of man's deep-seated will to ignorance and spiritual darkness), the word "charity" has come, in modern English, to by synonymous with "almsgiving," and is almost never used in its original sense, as signifying the highest and most divine form of love.  Owning to this impoverishment of our, at the best of times, very inadequate vocabulary of psychological and spiritual terms, the word "love" has had to assume an added burden. ... Ambiguity in vocabulary leads to confusion of thought; and, in this matter of love, confusion of thought admirably serves the purpose of an unregenerate and divided human nature that is determined to make the best of both worlds - to say it is serving God, while in fact it is serving Mammon, Mars or Priapus.

-Aldous Huxley, as excerpted from  The Perennial Philosophy