"into spectacles that require directors of genius and talented actors."
Heck, the American translation of the Scriptures is so flat that it take a trained actor to project their meaning with any clarity at all. We lectors have a devil of a time, and when you get someone who deons't have the faintest idea of how to read aloud, it can be prerty awful. But why is i t that modernists hate beauty? I guess because they are Purtians at heart, On the other hand, that it is to do injustice to the Puritans, most of whom were earthy men.
For some it's not that they hate beauty, it's that they hate beauty in the Church. When you have an agenda that is contrary to that of any institution, you can't further the agenda until you weaken or deconstruct the existing institution.
Some are innocent, but many realize exactly what they are doing. They know full well that our sacred music, which has its roots in times before Christ walked the earth is extremely powerful. It can convert on its own accord. They know it is essential to puvlerize the mass that converted the world and changed human history. They realize how beautuful our women look in veils and how mysterious our brothers and sisters look in the clothing of their vocation. Most of all they know the power of the Gospel, which comes from the Anglo Old-English word "Godspell".
They're not dumb. Which is why they've gotten away with as much as they have.
I'm not presenting anything new here. The Nazi's, Chicoms, Bolsheviks and any other tools of the enemy realized that they had to wipe out the existing traditions and history in order to flourish.