“I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not pull it out.”
G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
LOL! I’ve probably been guilty of this.
To clarify that a little, I’m not Catholic and my theological training is sorely limited. It’s not that I’m afraid to open the drawer so much as there’s a LOT of stuff to rifle through, and pulling on one thing seems to drag a host of others with it.
We had a drawer like that! Then I put all the things we never used in a box and about a year later got rid of it. Saves a lot of rattling the drawer and yelling “Aargh! Stupid [insert kitchen oddment]! Why do we even have one of those??”
Which brings us back to foul language. I’m strongly reminded of Captain Haddock.
Memorably voiced by Leo McKern in the audiobooks. He had the perfect voice for Haddock…
Lol! I’ve never encountered the audio-books, but that sounds epic.