I got this through the letterbox a few days ago.
I can be a bit pedantic, as you know. Nonetheless I don't expect the composer of the average parish church/community newsletter to know that Richard I never fought any battles at Antioch, or that he never went on the First Crusade (which finished 58 years before he was born). I don't expect them to know the dates of the Emperor Diocletian (or to know that Diocletian was the name of the persecuting emperor rather than an adjective to describe his persecution; it's not clear how our author understands the term). Or, possibly, to conjugate the verb to slay in less, shall we say, non-normative fashion.
But I do - kind of - expect the reader of a Christian parish church to spot something logically wrong with the statement that a persecution of Christians took place in 303 BC...
P.S. It's the sentiment that counts, though, and I approve of that.
P.S. It's the sentiment that counts, though, and I approve of that.
