jacksonspaz
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...practiced in? I'm American, I was raised Jewish, and I have many Catholic-Christian and Muslim friends (crazy, yeah?). My experience with Judaism is that Hebrew is still used with the Torah, the naming of everything, and so on. Catholic masses used to be done entirely in Latin, until the mid-20th Century when the Vatican decreed English was okay. And my good friends who practice Islam, all their services are done in [Arabic?] (I forget the specific language), even though most of the congregation is second-generation American born.
Is there some RELIGIOUS reason for keeping original languages in religious practices? Or is it entirely CULTURAL? Do these things change (like with Catholicism) only when the culture it's in is predominantly of their own identity? Or is it truly some religious reason that keeps these things the way they are? Because the way I see it, there is absolutely no religious reason to keep a practice in a specific language simply because of the religion itself.
But correct me if I'm wrong!
Is there some RELIGIOUS reason for keeping original languages in religious practices? Or is it entirely CULTURAL? Do these things change (like with Catholicism) only when the culture it's in is predominantly of their own identity? Or is it truly some religious reason that keeps these things the way they are? Because the way I see it, there is absolutely no religious reason to keep a practice in a specific language simply because of the religion itself.
But correct me if I'm wrong!