Words are living things, full of shades of meaning, full of associations; and, what is more, they are apt to change their significance from one gener… - Ronald Knox

When suave politeness, temp'ring bigot zeal
Corrected I believe to One does feel.

I suppose there has been no subtler attack upon the Christian faith devised by its enemies in these last hundred years than the attack made in the name of "comparative religion". If you pick up a book on "Atonement", and plough your way through ideas of atonement among primitive tribes, pagan ideas of atonement, Jewish ideas of atonement, Christian ideas of atonement, you will find by the end of it that atonement, for the author's mind, has ceased to have any meaning. And he has been successful, in so far as he has managed to infect your mind with the wooliness which is the leading characteristic of his own. Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.