re: #319 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
Well, it’s the idea of an official language that grates. You could say the same thing about Hebrew in the old days.
Perhaps the Roman Catholic Church may have (inadvertenly) fostered secularism across the Western world by holding on to Latin as a lingua franca well into the modern age. One of the many problems in the middle east is how their languages became defined as religious symbols as well.