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To: Craftmore
God forbid, rather, that we dumb down what we say to God so that the inattentive or those incapable of holding a complex thought in their heads feel like they get it.

Shall we take out all music to suit the deaf and all visual beauty to suit the blind? Shall we reduce the epistles of Paul to the syntax of the Simpsons?

You saw the prayer cited:

Keep us alert,
we pray, O Lord our God,
as we await the advent of Christ your Son,
so that,
when he comes and knocks,
he may find us watchful in prayer and exultant in his praise.

For whom but the inattentive is that too hard to understand? And if they cannot attend to elegance of language, why should we think they will make the required effort even if it is broken in to simple sentences?

How long have you been a Catholic by the way?

17 posted on 11/29/2011 5:21:54 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Jesus, I trust in you.)
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To: Mad Dawg; Craftmore
Don't get angry at Craftmore.

He had to take a remedial English course when his own congregation switched from The Message to the NIV.

He's still upset (that means "mad" or "not happy") at Lincoln for writing that complicated, hifalutin' Gettysburg Address. And don't even get him started on that showoff James Madison and his hoity-toity Constitution.

29 posted on 11/30/2011 10:41:13 AM PST by wideawake
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