(November 3, 2014 at 10:23 pm)Stimbo Wrote: No, I have no splitting hairs, but thanks for your concern. The word 'replacement' carries an implication of substitution, sure, but 'substitute' does not imply replacement. In the case of a vicar, s/he is a de facto stand-in for a god, a figurehead for the devotion of the faithful - not a replacement for a god.
And a de facto stand in is not a replacement for someone who is absent?