Nitpick: I think you mean parishioner.
Believe me, Tampa has got its own bunch of religious crazies. They show up at my university almost every day of the week. It’s actually quite entertaining. We had this guy the other day who was demonstrating the sinfulness of anal sex using a pair of extension cords as props. You had to be there.
But yeah, as far as my own experiences with anti-intellectualism in some certain sects of the Christian church, I left very quickly. That was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. God has nothing to fear from a thinking man, nor did he seem to care if I prayed to him in English or German or random babbled syllables.
Actually, it would be Greek, Aramaic and Syriac (assuming A & S aren’t the same thing, I don’t know).
Jesus and his disciples likely spoke Aramaic, and as Christianity spread, Greek was likely the language used by non-Aramaic speakers in eastern Mediterranean, and was used by the eastern Orthodox church in their liturgy . Latin probably would have been a third language, as the church spread beyond the eastern Mediterranean. For example, the Vulgate translation of the Bible was translated from the original Hebrew and Greek texts, in the early 5th century, building on other Latin translations.
In catechism (catholic school) we were taught that the “speaking in tongues” at Babel was punishment for trying to reach heaven the “wrong” way.
I don’t think any religion prohibits speaking multiple languages, but a *lot[/] of people hate it.
Not sure why. 
mangeorge
Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic spoken (to this day, in small numbers) by Christians, primarily of some Eastern Orthodox or Chaldean rite.
Right. Protestants were the partitioners. 
[Darn clicking wrong thing in spell check. :smack: ]