Family Guy changed Meg’s voice, and that worked out well. It’s reasonable to think this can too.

I realize Family Guy isn’t 100% fiction, but it’s the best comparison I can think of.

For the sake of brevity just accept that "... And with thy spirit" is the correct response and there's no intelligent argument against it.

I smell a bit....

No.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Right.

Same amount of syllables.

Stupid change for change sake.

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I ever recognize "and with your spirit".

"And also with you" 4 Life!

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

I smell a bit....

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Leave it to a Jesuit to think he can improve something written by God himself.

I remembered this....vaguely...and so went and looked it up. Apparently, the original Greek in Matthew employed a word never used before (Matthew invented it), and his interpreters later assumed that he was trying to coin a term for a word in Aramaic (and possibly Hebrew) that meant . . . many things. Then it got translated in Latin and then (for us) English, where it sounds really weird and the original meanings are obscured. Thanks, Interpreter's Bible! It's good to have these as e-copies.

For the sake of brevity just accept that "... And with thy spirit" is the correct response and there's no intelligent argument against it. It's not something directed at the officiant per se ... Paul used variations on it in his Epistles, and I forget the book ... well, the internet tells me Ruth, where Boaz rolls into town and says "The Lord be with you" and they say "The Lord Bless you" ... close enough. The service is supposed to be mostly comprised as a direct lift or close approximation of verses from the Bible.

If there's no real basis to do so, why did MANY decide to change it up? Probably for the same reasons MANY churches think it's real f---ing neato to reinvent the wheel every week by re-writing the order of service (or what decent people who don't think they can outdo God via their creative writing skills refer to as The Liturgy) -- because MANY people are about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

As to the 'daily' thing tommy wrote about while I was typing out this idiocy, I'll just say that I've never honestly thought much it, and that my (probably under-informed) understanding was that it was meant as an all-encompasing request to indicate our faith that He'll provide for our needs - not just the stuff we 'know' we need (e.g., food, water, shelter, internet) but also the stuff we have no idea we need (like, say, in four hours from now when Yugo hits you and you need a Band-Aid for each of the two cuts you suffered as a result).

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

No.

Catholics are such snowflakes. I still say the mass in LATIN

Every good Lutheran will tell you the only TRUE biblical language is God-given German!

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

Catholics are such snowflakes. I still say the mass in LATIN

My mom still bitches about that change. Semi corresponds with her leaving the church. More correlation than causation however.

I complain, too, but it is really my agnosticism and all of the bad priests that drove me away. I'd actually go if they had the Latin Mass...that sounds cool.

I've been listening to some old Art Bell on youtube lately and his interviews with Malachi Martin are entertaining radio. Among many other things, Martin holds that every mass performed under post Vatican II guidelines are not true masses (I assume Seacrest is of this opinion as well, not to flame but I thought it was his belief). Check it out if you want to hear intrigue dealing with everything from exorcism to murder.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Right.

Same amount of syllables.

Stupid change for change sake.

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I ever recognize "and with your spirit".

"And also with you" 4 Life!

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

I smell a bit....

We know how the church likes its accuracy....

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?