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no hats in church is a rule at least where I am from and is a very old tradition. No shoes in a mosque is not just about mud it's primarily about respect which is why churches ask you to take your hat off because you are supposed to treat the building with the respect you would someone's home.

It's just a courtesy signifying respect across cultures to not violate small traditions like this. The rule itself is not important it is the following that signifies that you care about their feelings and cultural values because you care about their culture. Not following the rule signifies deliberate disrespect.

Think it's stupid all you want but there are social conventions for good and important reasons and they ease tensions across cultures. The conventions are a form of communication and if you don't follow the convention people are going to assume you mean the same thing as the people who don't follow the convention as a mark of deliberate disrespect.

It doesn't matter whether or not you can understand why they value this rule they have told you it is important to them

step one of coming to any kind of solution would be for the Israelis to stop killing people and nicking all their shit.

they should do that first and from there there could be talks leading to peace and concessions. The fact people don't have a perfect end solution is not a reason not to take that obvious first step in finding one

first the root cause needs to be addressed before recovery is possible

damn I'm not even sure the leader of my country has ever read a book

you don't have to believe it. It's not imposing a belief on you to ask you to take your shoes off when you enter a mosque or your hat off in church. This is equivalent

it's asking for a small courtesy out of respect for their beliefs

stop imposing your athiesm on them

The old people in my life sometimes feel they need to have more up to date technology. I explain to them that actually if they're just using the computer for the internet they're basically fine with what they have

far more often in my experience old people are tech averse

terrible comment

bad news Lenin is now on the moon after the stock did so well

you aren't gambling on the outcomes of military battles you are gambling on the military buying more weapons

daphne would never

They would have kept going until they collapsed

they did

liberals stop minimising the nazis challenge

The fact that Arab countries are historically the world’s biggest colonizers

The sheer scale of ignorance on display

then who will eat all these onions

I bet trans people would have said not to do that

yes it's exactly like that in that people want him to stop doing stupid shit because it's killing peope

He is great. He's terrible but he is also briliant

Henry the 8th was for everything else he was a genuinely cunning statesman who among other things did break the power of the feudal barons over the English state

We focus a lot on funny fat guy obsessed with a son. But he wanted a son because without a son the barons would never stop thinking "Henry is powerful but I have to look to the future who comes after" and marrying off his daughters as heirs would mean being forced to allign as a subordinate power to either Spain or France.

He was also a brutal serial killer who would have close friends killed on a whim. But it's inaccurate to portray him as just a buffoon

also basic stuff that we don't even think of today like "it is wrong to consider your wife to be a literal slave" The cultural shift in European culture as a result of Christianity is hard to underestimate. Romans thought it was in the natural order for a patriarch displeased with his wife to leave their infant son on the street (where in theory they could be adopted but in reality would be eaten by stray dogs). If you grew up in Roman society the thing you would find outraging in that situation would be if the mother complained

I know someone who is teaching themselves Latin in retirement and according to them Latin talks about death the way English talks about rain or the inuits snow

Also the idea of Christianity being colonial in its spread in Europe isn't really accurate. The English weren't conquered and forced to give up the old gods they gave them up willingly. Christianity was even a rallying cultural symbol against the slavery and conquest of the norsemen. The Romans at the time of their conversion were even the imperial power

I've even seen someone claim that the reason some norse folklore portrays nature as harsh and dangerous is Christian influence demonising their old gods and not the fact that of course they think nature is harsh they lived in Scandanavia. Nor is Christianity more anti-nature than paganism. Christianity and Abrahamic faiths do include explict language on stewardship of nature and the Romans under their old gods quite happily made Carthage into a desert and would as a tactic of occupation punish revolt by for example burning the heather and salting the earth

very little you can do about fasting to death as well. You would basically have to imprison and forcefeed them

just have to rely on the fact no major religion calls for it and people natively don't want to starve to death