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But of course, you should only put this much effort into word rooting to kill time, and never to prove a real point. Since it almost always gets to Latin eventually, and the Romans had a very odd mind set that pretty much viewed everything as how it related to the military and power you can get some wierd ideas going. For instance:
Host is the Latin word for enemy
Impediment comes from the Latin impedus which literally translates as "in front of (your) feet ", but the word itself was used to mean luggage or supplies.

As for religion and that word's relationship to bondage, from a militaristic standpoint it's quite clear. Disregarding for the moment all the stuff about salvation and souls and so forth what is a religion? Well it's a collection of rules and moral guideline. Rules that are not to be broken, rules that keep you from doing stuff, rules that "bind" your actions (if you will). Of course this is held up by the fact that the word "law" stems from "legal" which itself comes from that same bondage root. To a freewheeling always conquering military society all rules, whether from man or god (lowercase because I'm using the concept of all gods not The Entity, I try so hard not to offend) are restricting and binding.

As for Circe and church I'm not buying it. Here's from the Websters site: [Middle English chirche, from Old English cirice, ultimately from Medieval Greek krikon, from Late Greek kriakon (dma), the Lord's (house), neuter of Greek kriakos, of the lord, from krios, lord. See keu- in Indo-European Roots.]
Looks like it pretty much skipped Rome. Which makes sense, church has a very British Isle fondness for consenants and a Greek love of the k-r (r-k in this instance) combo.

"Looks like it pretty much skipped Rome. Which makes sense, church has a very British Isle fondness for consenants and a Greek love of the k-r (r-k in this instance) combo."

Well thats the thing, they didn't have a fondness for r-k, so the kriakon idea realy doesn't work. Etymological scholars stopped arguing about that one a long time ago conceding that the Kriakon path was most likely incorect.

"But of course, you should only put this much effort into word rooting to kill time, and never to prove a real point."

You have to look back through the posts a bit, but I was proving a point. Some ignorant sap tried to say that Kirk was pagan. Oddly I proved him right but also showed that it is currently applied to churches in the land he said considered it Pagan.

Since it almost always gets to Latin eventually, and the Romans had a very odd mind set that pretty much viewed everything as how it related to the military and power you can get some wierd ideas going. For instance:

Please try to remember that the christian movement as we know it today is part and parcel of what was once Rome. That Odd mind set likely controlled people like Emporor Constantine who basicaly founded the Roman Catholic Church.
Since that mindset was so prevalent it is beyond any doubt that it was also a part of the generaly psyche of the time, the same psyche that worked to interpret Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew into Latin. The same work has permutated over time into the many modern versions of the Bible. That is touchy ground to many.