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Just feels kinda Roman privilege to assume the almighty wants to hear Latin.

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

An omnipotent and omniscient being probably doesn't give a shit about which language you use...or, being omnipotent, you actually can't address it in any other way than it wants you to.

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Hot take. I like it. Very Lovecraftian. Impudent to even imply.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

God literally created all languages, so surely he knows them all.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

*She, and all except for Esperanto

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Godless ass Esperanto....

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

My headcanon is that Latin is used both because it's traditional and because it's fairly grammatically precise. You can call a spell in any language, but a grammatically precise one helps focus on the specific outcome you want.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

Kind of funny to think about if Jesus learned English through prayers, so he assumes that "Please let me win the lottery" translates to, "Hi, how are you doing?"

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Just feels kinda Roman privilege to assume the almighty wants to hear Latin.

It is. That's why it's a privilege to be a citizen 💪

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

My mind somehow meshes the ideas from butcher's dresden books, where your belief in an icon as a symbol of the faith matters more than its actual connection to the religion, and lackey's high magic (compared to the wild magic) where the collective energy of the populace can be collected and stored to be used. So I end up with this idea where the catholic church has collected a vast amount of energy to be used, and the utterance of latin is the individual's (in this case constantine's) personal symbolic link to the catholic church to harness that energy.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if I've learned anything from fantasy based isekai mangas, the words are meaningless. it's the intent of the caster that does it.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

And thus, masturbation prayer was born

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This bother me so much. I mean, once he went through the trap would no longer work.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's supported by a latticework of it's fucking magic. They're going to go get a goblet that makes you immortal, you expect 100% realism?

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How else I'm going to get my degree?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

A leap from the lion's head ;)

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait until you learn that the letter J wasn't invented until the 1500's.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What? Who invented the letter J?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The Italians of all people.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

you can see the pillars intended to be the safe letters in the shot

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think the Catholic Church does Latin because that was the language the first pope (Saul/Paul) was given his revelation in.

Omniscient being(s) would, of course, understand any language.

The weave/astral is manipulated by intelligence/will and the somatic component if any is just to provide caster focus.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The rules are so cherry picked it literally doesn’t matter what you believe in the bigger context. Religion wants mindless servitude and will say whatever you need to hear to gaslight yourself into believing it’s real.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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