> There's also a lot of other issues. A lot of major religious traditions rely on revealed scripture whose meaning is only precisely accessible through a partic

> There's also a lot of other issues. A lot of major religious traditions rely on revealed scripture whose meaning is only precisely accessible through a particular language. In Islamic theology this would be Arabic and for Jews it is Hebrew of course. It would be an extreme cultural loss for billions of people to lose this access to their traditions. I don't see it as a problem in the slightest, and not just because I personally think religious traditions are better left behind. No-one these days speaks classical Latin or ancient Greek; and yet we have some knowledge about the ancient tradition through commentaries and translations (regardless of how imprecise those translations are). We do not experience this as a tragedy or as an extreme cultural loss, despite us not being able to read those texts. Nor is anyone bemoaning the inaccessibility of Beowulf and the inadequacy of existing translations. And if someone is especially interested in the topic — well, there are always scholars who are free to learn those languages and to study the originals.