I was wondering if a Christian should consider learning a different language? I am reminded of the Tower of babel and was wondering if The Lord would approve of someone trying to learn to speak a different dialect. I won't say which one, but it is widely used. Any thoughts?
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Well, considering these people can't even wipe their asses without consulting their Chick tracts first, it's not surprising that they think they need their sky-daddy's permission to use a brain cell or two.
By that logic English speakers should still be worshiping Woden, because no missionaries would have ever learned Old English.
You are worshiping the wrong god, Drailon. >:D
Yes, because the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the universe- He who ordaineth the flow of electrons and the dance of the celestial bodies- genuinely cares whether or not one particularly backward monkey takes the time to learn how to grunt in a different way.
Just in case you decide to throw caution to the wind and learn something, here's a secret message, just for you:
Mange la merde, singe retardée.
People who can speak multiple languages are usually (and rightly) proud of the fact. I like to think that I can speak one language other than English reasonably well, and sort of read one other.
I wish I was fluent in at least ten languages. Oh, and in case you'd forgotten, the whole fucking world does not speak English as its first language. Nor was your precious bible originally written in anything which remotely resembles English.
Really, I don't think your Lord would mind - if he actually existed, that is.
@ Hasan Prishtina
"If we don't speak English, do you promise to stop trying to convert us? "
Those cretins surely believe that when the time comes they will be able to speak in tongues.
Let them marinate in their own ignorance. At leats, it will prevent them from ever gaining significance.
Widely used, you say. Well, the most widely used languages in the World are probably Mandarin, Spanish, English, Hindi and Arabic. You already speak English (sort of), I doubt anyone on RR would want to learn Arabic, and Mandarin and Hindi are probably too hard for your limited mental abilities. That leaves Spanish. Oh well, it's easy enough, even for you, I guess. I understand a bit, even though I have never studied it. But, I have studied English, German, French and Latin, that might have been a help to understand other related languages...
Yes, Christians should consider learning different languages. Otherwise they would all just speak Hebrew like in the beginning. I was an agnostic Christian when I learned those languages, I only became an atheist after finding this marvelous site, where I learned too much about Christianity to take it seriously any longer.
You know, I'd actually be interested in seeing what a Christian fundamentalist and biblical literalist who is also interested in constructed languages would come up with, if he tried to develop a special language by and for other fundamentalist Christians.
But I guess I don't have to wonder, really. All I have to do is take a stroll through the archives here to find people like Drailon trying to redefine the English language to mean whatever the fuck they want it to mean.
Translation:
Help, I have inadvertently conditioned my kid to renounce my own cultural heritage with my draconian parenting, and now I need someone to give me an excuse to use the fear of hell's eternal torture to "set him straight".
I really can't say I don't despise such mentality.
One of the way God manifests himself among the men is making some persons speaking in tongues .
Besides, how can you convert people if you can't speak with them in a language they understand?
#1578500
An insight into the fears of people that sincerely believe that their every thought is being monitored by a capricious judge.
That is the sad thing about religion. You can spend a lifetime worrying about Big Brother in the sky. And then you get to spend an eternity being monitored. If there was a God and Heaven was real, I imagine that most people would eventually retreat into insanity. But God being both omnipotent and psychopathic would restore your sanity, and the circle would go around endlessly. If there is a Hell, then that would have to Heaven.
From my limited reading the distinction between languages and dialects is a slippery one ... but the two terms are hardly interchangeable.
But yes, a just-so story in the Bible means that God hates multilingualism as much as homosexuality (and shrimp). He wrote the Bible in American, dontcha know. Learning that there English from England ain't godly.
A dialect is not the same as a language. Is he planning on learning another language like Mandarin Chinese or a different dialect, like Redneck?
Although I would think he's quite fluent in Redneck.
"Any thoughts?"
Yes: you're an idiot.
"Any thoughts?"
Not in your head.
Well, there's always Klingon, Drailon.
And the KJV has been translated into that language.
Qapla'.
Why not ask Pope Benedict? You can do so in German, French, English, Italian, Latin, Spanish or Portuguese--he speaks them all.
But you DO speak a different dialect/language to all the other languages/dialects in the world.
Where I live it is essential to have a working knowledge of 4 languages. It doesn't bother anyone here. It just happens, and no one makes a big thing of it. There have been no massive lightning bolts on polyglots.
Even your KJV is a different dialect of English towards the standard language of today.
Learning another language just might broaden your horizons. Try proper English for a start.
If Elizabethan English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me. Or something...
Any thoughts? Is it a "dirty" dialect, or what? Why else would you be squeamish to mention it?
I have stuided five lanugages and know snatches of a couple more. Five languages isn't unusual in Sweden, a lot of people know more languages than me. God doesn't seem bothered in the slightest.
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