What is more important for Americans? To learn Spanish as Second Language or, Hebrew as second language?

What a stupid question! We should all learn English as a first language if we live in the U.S. No more bi-lingual education either unless we want all these people from other countries to never assimilate into our society. Of course, if we keep them talking their native language, we know they will only be qualified to work in restaurants and clean toilets in hotels. There is no correlation between your religion question.

If you're representative of the average American, I'd have to say the devil.

Jesus Christ was a Jewish Rabi. So if you claim all Jews are are of the Devil; then you are claiming Jesus is of the Devil. And Jesus did not come here to start a new religion; but to fix the Jewish one. In Matthew 5 he requires us not to forget any of the Commandments. There are 306 Commandments plus a few new ones Jesus brought/gave to us. Do you know all of these Commandments, even the few we don't have to obey today? There is still a Jewish religion that believes Jesus was/is the Christ,(as the bible says they met in the Synagogues in the evening) so you are hating ones that do believe in Christ. The Catholic church did not get started until 305/6 A.D. But today it will not even admit to that. It has put Pride before God, Jesus, and Truth. Nor was the Catholic church the first religion; just the first big one that decide NOT to obey all Jesus said. Too much effort for them

Just a little hateful today aren't we? Its not an either/or situation, and you can keep your Catholic faith, and your Latino culture without making it the only way to go, since a good many Baptists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Unitarians, Anglicans, Calvinists who also feel that this country and its English language are all we need. No one has ever asked us to learn Hebrew or follow Jewish culture or Zionist politics. No one has ever asked us to become Atheistic either. Why should we learn the Catholic faith just because you follow it, no wonder we look at the influx of those of Latino extraction with a question mark, you don't want to join us, you want us to join you. And cloaking that in a mix of anti Jewish, anti Israel nonsense manages to overlook the fact that the Arabs the Jews are fighting are also our enemies, Its Arab Muslims who are doing the bombing of Americans and others here and abroad not your much hated Israelis. Who do you follow? The Muslims?

I fail to find any correlation between the questions you asked. 1) I don't think that either language is more important for Americans to learn. Americans should speak a fair English; other than that (second, third or forth languages)- it is all up to each individual personally and may serve different purposes. Jewish Americans may be more interested in Hebrew, while Latin Americans may be more interested in Spanish. 2) Again, neither (and I say "neither" while I really don't understand the weird division of two possibilities) is "more important". Each American should learn whatever he wants. 3) The USA is not a Christian country: http://ffrf.org/nontracts/xian.php 4) Most of the Americans are Christian, so I'd say Jesus (unless there's some kind of a catch in this question?).

This question made me think. The first kneejerk impulse is to say: learning spanish would be more practical, of course. But if you stop and think about it, we are a nation of individuals who identify ourselves in polls as upwards of 90% Christian. Even our very Constitution --our contract-based groundbreaking form of contract government, and the writings of our founding fathers, to say nothing of the writings of Europe and our 2000-year history of Western civilization-- are all deeply embedded in understanding of the Bible and its historic, literary and philosophical concepts. And that Bible, to understand it fully, should be read and understood in the original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic it was written in. Despite the great faithfulness in translating it into a variety of languages, it would be culturally and spiritually beneficial to understand this cornerstone document of our culture in its original form. It would cause a spiritual revival that would diminish and/or eliminate problems such as drugs, teenage pregnancy, divorce and breakdown of the family, and many other social problems that have emerged because of lost understanding of what our culture is based on. The rise of liberal secularism and exclusion of religious teachings in our schools --[b]MORE than exclusion, an outright contempt for Judao-Christian foundations of our culture[/b]-- and teaching a contempt for Western society in our schools and universities, has vastly eroded our culture. And eroded our will to preserve it, as the United States approaches being overwhelmed by hispanic immigration and culture, and Europe is being overwhelmed by Islamic immigration and culture. Teaching spanish would accellerate that overwhelming. Teaching Hebrew would remind us what we are, and help give us the will to preserve our nation and culture. Mazeltov! [Excellent!] I'd highly recommend the book DEATH OF THE WEST, by Patrick Buchanan, for a good understanding of how the combined forces of secularism and multiculturalism are destroying our culture, and have been for 40 years, and how this is what they had clearly planned from the beginning. The U.S. is a Christian country, more thasn 90% of whom polled identify themselves as Christian. But they've lost and understanding of what Christianity really is. Most have a vague personally-formed idea of what "Christian" is, not a uniform, biblically based standard, not a historically and literally-based understanding of Christianity. Those who understand their culture will fight to defend it. Those who do not will stand by and passively watch it be destroyed.

jesus was a jewish carptener - the poster is an anti christ.

Neither, English will be spoken here.

Ther are many more latin speakers in the world; they are from many different geographies and cultures... they hold great promise... we are America... of the America's the next imporant languages here are Spanish, Portugues, and French. Hebrew I'm sure is a very lovely ancient language with limited modern usage. No doubt it is important to understanding and also learning Arabic. Semetic languages in philology must be related. If one doesnt have an extreme religious need for Hebrew or Arabic, these become important languages only to the extent that we as America have business, and diplomatic contacts with these regions. Afterall it is also 2007, not only are there human translators but there are computer translations as well. Peace,Paz, Shalom, Salom