It is something that has stuck and become the norm over the years. It is an American thing that is not used either by the Church officially or in other countries.
Whatever, I do not shy away from it and only bring it up because some here seem to think they can use it to prove that the Church today is not the Church of the NT or of the last nearly 2,000 years.
History proves that to be untrue.
Evangelicalism rejects the role of human reason in faith. So does Islam.
Pope Benedict observed the latter in his Regensburg address.
But for Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality.” Here Khoury quotes a work of the noted French Islamist R. Arnaldez, who points out that Ibn Hazn went so far as to state that God is not bound even by his own word, and that nothing would oblige him to reveal the truth to us. Were it God’s will, we would even have to practice idolatry.