text: My reference to the Evil One was merely to make the point that not all developments are positive for two reasons, human and evil; I did not in any way implicate Satan is this issue.
  
  I do not content that adoration ought to be denied those who find solace therein, but merely that it, IMHO, is not a felicitous historical development in its historical context, and that alone is reason enough to ponder whether it ought to be fostered or allowed to wither today. We will disagree on that one.
  
  Re ecumenism, I am working from an unstated image of how Christianity might grow back together again. I take the plaintive cry of Jesus on the eve of his crucifixion that "We may be one" to be a moral imperative for all Christians, and I suggest that if every group were to strive to grow together by putting aside peripheral practice and peripheral theology, we might indeed one day once again become one as Jesus wishes. Benediction is, IMHO, just such a peripheral practice.