Quote Originally Posted by Father Bill View Post
The value in traditional symbolism is that it is a set of visual indicators originally set up for a broadly illiterate people, so it is in itself a very real language. To mess with that sends all sorts of inaccurate signals and destroys a living language for the sake of a few individuals' fashion sense. That to me is a very, very poor trade that impoverishes the entire planet.
Padre, that is probably one of the best posts I have ever read on this forum. That is very similar to a point I used to make in my basic heraldry talks when I worked as a genealogy library about the value of heraldry -- I actually used the example of the adopted arms of saints and apostles as a "teaching tool".

Spot on, Padre!

T.