Churches are getting into the doublespeak spirit. ... Take the term "sin," for instance. There's a word we could all live without. I mean, who wants to be told they're guilty of--sin? No one I know. Yet that kind of thing goes on in churches regularly.

So I think we should follow the lead of the noted Christian television personalities who, after having been involved in various questionable activities, replaced any references to "sin" with terms like "moral failure," and "momentary lapse." Wouldn't our churches be more cheery places if we all did the same?

Many already are, as the modern rendering of (Romans 3).23--from the SMNAV (Shirley MacLaine New Age Version)--illustrates: "For all have experienced momentary lapses and have come up a tad shy of the Divine Entity's absolute ideal, but hey, nobody's perfect. So don't worry. Be Happy!"