[RobbyS]

Of course it was an elite language. Who do you think runs any society? Even today lawyers draw up documents that are meaningful to THEM and not to you average high school student. hink of it as a conspirtacy, and there is no possible argument against such a mind-set. Fact is, they did what came naturally to any ruling class: they talked to one another and excluded outsiders by the way they talked and who they admitted to their circle.

[Havoc]

Of course it was an elite language. Who do you think runs any society? Even today lawyers draw up documents that are meaningful to THEM and not to you average high school student. [t]hink of it as a conspirtacy, and there is no possible argument against such a mind-set. Fact is, they did what came naturally to any ruling class: they talked to one another and excluded outsiders by the way they talked and who they admitted to their circle.

And your clergy chose to feed the commoner with it - a language they didn't understand and that was primarily used among the elite. Uhuh. Again, you finally say it; but, look how long it took you in denials to get there. An insiders language that excludes the uneducated from its circle. In otherwords, the dumb stay dumb and thus can't question what they're being taught if they don't understand it. Just one natural side effect.