Posted on 05/14/2009 12:29:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
Thank God For Our Dinner? Cambridge Students Axe Tradition Of Saying Grace Before Dinner As It Is 'Too Religious'
By Daily Mail Reporter 14th May 2009
Students lucky enough to have won a place at Cambridge have plenty to be thankful for.
So it is not surprising that grace is said before formal dinners at the university's Newnham College.
However, the Christian content of the prayer has proved too much for some students and they have brought in a secular version.
Enlarge All change: Newnham College, Cambridge, where undergraduates think saying grace is 'too religious' Their only concession is that the new speech will, like the old, be read in Latin.
The traditional version addressed thanks to Jesum Christum dominum nostrum - Jesus Christ our Lord.
The new grace reads: 'Pro cibo inter esurientes, pro comitate inter desolatos, pro pace inter bellantes, gratias agimus.'
Food for thought: Mary Beard says the new non-religious grace is an insult to the Latin language For those not well-versed in Latin that's: 'For food in a hungry world, for companionship in a world of loneliness, for peace in an age of violence, we give thanks.'
The non-religious grace, approved at a college meeting last week, is supposed to reflect the diversity of the women-only college.
Mary Beard, who is a fellow of Newnham, said the change was an insult to Latin, although without grammatical howlers.
Writing online, she said: 'The undergraduates' rewrite was a classic case of disguising a load of well meaning platitudes in some posh dead language, which was actually an insult to that dead language.
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If they change the text in a foreign tongue, they fig’er that the dupes won’t see through their tactic.
Why not just have them sing John Lennon’s IMAGINE before every meal?
Ahhh, you’ll soon be reaping the benefits of “dissing” God!
You want God out of your life? So be it.....you’re on your own now!
Golly, they could at least thank Mother Gaia, or the false prophet pedophile of Islam, as the case may be....
Hec acedum Zambonus
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