On Jul 8, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> Beauty, ha! I see this as a classic example of the faithful
> wanting to
> ensure that their meaningless gibberish is as as incomprehensible as
> possible. Ah, the sweet mystery of BS.
Well yeah. When I was a kid I thought the Latin mass was intoxicating. When they translated it into English it sounded like mumbo-jumbo. Maybe I just got older too. But listening to Bach's B Minor Mass, it's hard to resist the mystical pull.
Doug