Now I am confused. If you never believed in God, who did you believe you were praying to?
I am a Catholic of the post-Vatican II era. I have never believed the Lord holds it against me because I speak to him in English. Nor do I accept my prayers will carry more weight if they are in Latin.
Well, you're right, because He doesn't, and they won't. But the Catholic faith requires us to acknowledge the utility and appropriateness both of an ancient liturgical language, *as well as* the vernacular. Both are part of our long tradition, and both must be maintained.
The Council of Trent infallibly decreed:
If anyone says...the mass ought to be celebrated in the vernacular tongue only...let him be anathema.