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VMA131Marine

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1. This is not a new thing in religion

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Fri Feb 17, 2017, 02:45 PM

Feb 2017

The RC church clung to a Latin liturgy for the longest time because most of the congregation didn’t understand it and thus needed the priest to interpret for them. I think it ultimately goes back to the story of Eve eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Some churches want their congregants to be dumb and unquestioning of church authority.

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"College makes you stupid!" [View all] Archae Feb 2017 OP

This is not a new thing in religion VMA131Marine Feb 2017 #1

"That's your education talking" ck4829 Feb 2017 #2

My Grandfather was a Southern Baptist Evangelical Preacher Louis1895 Feb 2017 #3