Ok, am atheist and perhaps not entitled to comment. But I support, like and attend my dds' carol service every year, and every year I wonder why in the blazes the church has changed the words to stuff.
Can't people understand 'thine is the kingdom', and 'trespasses' any more?
Why must Mary be 'pregnant' not 'with child'?
Aren't all those Christmas verses and readings and carols sort of losing something through accessible bland language?
This isn't the school: it's the bloody minster! Why have they done this? Why??
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To think the baby Jesus wasn't laid in a chuffing 'feeding trough'?
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TheOriginalSteamingNit · 10/12/2013 22:44
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