[D Rider]

The sincere appreciation of oratory skills does tend to raise one above the level of the duckweed in the pond.

However, there is a distinct difference between understanding and imitation.

I am sorry, I didn't hear you. I was commenting that you are fun to read. You would probably make your point more clearly if you did not try so hard.

[MarkBsnr]

My apologies.

My point: The Catholic Church was commissioned by Our Lord Jesus Christ and they then went out and evangelized the world. They also wrote down a whole bunch of writings and then selected the ones that they figured that God wanted them to.

They then selected a univeral language (Latin) so that they could give a complete and identical message to the world and also have the thousands of monks copying the Bible do so in identical fashion.

They then figured out a Catechism of what God wants us to do and why.

You can either hep onto that or not. I rather prefer the hep. It seems to me to be right thing.