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Mystery. What happens at the Christian altar is mysterious and sacred, isn’t it? When you use ordinary, plain language, what are you are telling the congregation? That what is happening is ordinary and plain. But when you use a designated sacred language, or at least a sacred variation of a vernacular language (like King James English), you are drawing a little bit of a veil over it.

There is no mystery to it...Nothing magical...What is it, is 'Show Time'...

And God says, 'do not do it'...You flat out reject the instruction from the Apostle and pretend you are using a 'sacred' language...

There is no mystery to it...Nothing magical...What is it, is 'Show Time'...

Would you rather "this is my body, this is my blood" to be all buttoned down and sewn up in a nice rationalistic package that you can fit in your pocket? The central sacramental mystery of Christianity reduced to a dopey little farce of juice and a cracker that we break out once in a while to "memorialize" God incarnate--as if that makes any sense?

Good luck with all that.

If you don't see mystery in the Christian liturgy, you ain't looking hard enough.