Because Latin forms the basis of many languages. Knowing latin one can esasily move to French, Spanish, or Italian. Very practical.

Eastern worldviews are monistic, self-defeating and not a great place to start. And I can say for experience--I did study and imbibe eastern worldviews for a long time. This complented my study in martial arts.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College