I've got to admit, I have a problem with this one. As a kid, my family attended a church that held this belief. It turned into sessions where people where prayed over others to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Most often it turned into (afaict) people speaking gibberish to show that they had. It never 'worked' on me. I ended up just copying the same gibberish sounds to get them to leave me alone. I suspect I'm not the only one that was guilty of that.
It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized the bit where there should be an interpreter present or it shouldn't be practiced. I can't remember where that verse is, but it was one of Paul's letters. Since then, I've been fairly convinced from various readings that glossolalia was actually a miraculous speaking of foreign languages (which is NOT what I've seen practiced today).
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