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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (2928)	10/29/2000 10:10:28 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Latin is a sacred language, as is Hebrew or Sanskrit. The mass has its fullest magic power in Latin. When the Mass is celebrated in a national language it is only a lecture not a magic ritual. Of course. Can't magic be defined, practically, as that which is incomprehensible? Once it can be understood, you realize that it wasn't magic in the first place, and then it is no longer magic. My parents used to drive vast distances on Sundays, sullen brood in tow, to hear a strange and ritualistic Ukranian rite mass, with incense, deep, brooding songs, etc. They said the English version seemed trite by comparison. Of course for all they knew the Ukranians might have been saying "hocus pocus abracadabra" over and over again. If one judges "magic" through its demonstrable effect on the physical world, the Catholic rite in any language is no more magic than the collected spells of Harry Potter.