Latin is the language of the people who lived before catholics came.?

Question

Why do christians think Latin is their language.Latin belongs to Caesar and Augustus.Our great Caesar not christian popes have a right to speak this glorious but lost language meant for pagans a long time before cristians came.

Answer 1

Latin does not belong to Christianity, Catholicism, or Ancient Rome.

Any language (Latin, English, Cherokee, or Swahili) belongs to those living people who use it to communicate, express ideas and feelings, and say things like "Te amo!" (I love you!).

Both Christians and Pagans have spoke just about every language ever uttered. Neither group owns nor throws out a valuable tool of human ingenuity like an entire language.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Well if you knew "your" Roman history, you would know that Constantine I made Christianity the official Roman Religion. Ergo, Latin became the language of Catholicism starting around 400 AD.
Latin is the basis for Romantic languages, which since you have an attachment to Caesar (not specifying which one-I guess you mean Julius) means your own native language of Italian; as well as Romanian, Spanish, French and Romansch.
These languages evolved as Vulgates of "proper" Latin. English has some Latin antecedents, but it's lineage is primarily Germanic.
Finally, it's not "lost". It's the official language of the Vatican. A country recognized as such around the world.

Answer 3

I have no idea if Christians really think that but here is an explanation:

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome.

Latin gained wide currency, especially in Europe, as the formal language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and, after Rome's conversion to Christianity, of the Roman Catholic Church (although by the time of widespread Christian conversion in Europe, Latin had already become more a language of the Church and of scholars, rather than of the common people). Principally through the influence of the Church, it also became the primary language of later medieval European scholars and philosophers. As an inflectional and synthetic language, Latin relies very little on word order, conveying syntax through a systemic system of affixes attached to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from that of the Etruscans and Greeks (each of those themselves derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet), remains the most widely used alphabet in the world.

Although now widely considered a dead language, with few fluent speakers and no native ones, Latin has had a significant influence on many other languages still thriving today, including English, and continues to be an important source of vocabulary for science, academia, and law; it is also used by the Catholic Church, and still evolving, making it technically still alive. Romance languages (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Spanish and other regional languages or dialects from the same area) are descended from Vulgar Latin, and many words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages—including English, where from Latin roughly half of its vocabulary is derived, directly or indirectly.[1] This is part of its legacy as the lingua franca of the Western world for over a thousand years. Latin was only replaced in this capacity by English in the 20th century,[citation needed] though Latin continued to be used in some intellectual and political circles.

Answer 4

Actually latin is the language of science and intellect. It was used so that people could converse in it, even if they were from different places. You can see its influence in medicine as well eg paedeatrics, gynacology, etc etc. and of course all species are latinised eg Homo sapiens etc.
All new species, when first described also must be in Latin (NOT good for me, trying to desipher it!).
Its considered useful in thats its a dead language and there are not changes in grammer, etc.
Of course it was started by the Roman Empire, which then lead in the Roman Catholic church, where even today its used in some parts of the mass (or whole masses said in Latin.). It was Queen Elizabeth who got rid of Latin in the 1500's and used English or the common language instead and other christian religions son followed. Catholics were much later.