The U.N. Human Rights Committee has declared that France’s ban on full-face Islamic veils, such as the niqab and burqa, is a violation of Muslim women’s rights.
The committee, a body of 18 independent experts that monitors how nations implement an international civil rights treaty, said that France has failed to adequately explain why the 2010 law, which has come to be known as a burqa ban, was necessary.
“In particular, the Committee was not persuaded by France’s claim that a ban on face covering was necessary and proportionate from a security standpoint or for attaining the goal of ‘living together’ in society,” the committee said in a statement on Tuesday. “The Committee acknowledged that States could require that individuals show their faces in specific circumstances for identification purposes, but considered that a general ban on the niqab was too sweeping for this purpose.”
The committee, one of the many U.N. rights-monitoring groups supported by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, added that the ban confines women who wear full-face veils to their homes, “impeding their access to public services and marginalizing them.”
Mormons have some kind of list of which houses NOT to stop at; they will pass you by when they are out doing their missionary thing.
From the corner window, I saw two young guys in the white shirts and the ties walking up the block towards my sidewalk. Then they passed by and went up to the next house.
I assume it’s because I engaged the last pair of Mormon missionaries with questions: why no one ever told them the truth about old Joe Smith who was a conman arrested twice in New York before he invented Mormonism, why a supposed divinely-inspired text would be full of untruths about Native Americans, how old Joe Smith’s doctrine of religious polygamy was an attempt to bamboozle people who thought he was immoral for marrying several young girls …
I also assume they reported my questions back to their mission leader and he (well, it would be a he, wouldn’t it, knowing Mormon views of women in leadership) must have put my address on a no-go list to avoid the chance that I might contaminate the faith of a future Mormon.
Poor kids. They are lied to their whole lives. Poor me, I missed my chance to enlighten a couple of ‘em.
LOL They absolutely do X your house. My dad was a shift worker and they once woke him up about 30 minutes after he’d gone to bed. He answered the door, naked as the day he was born and furious, and threatened to strangle them all with their ties. They never ever returned–and my parents lived in that house for 25 years.
oh lord what a great story! Glad I wasn’t there to see it, though 🍑
Piling on:
I lived for a while in a communal household with a bunch of people who rescued animals, and for a while we had this incredibly sweet Burmese python named Dolores that we were caring for. She rebounded from neglect very quickly and was basically a joyful and energetic bundle of sunshine, but she’d had mites and they were hard to get rid of. Treatment includes coating the snake with olive oil and waiting an hour, which causes the mites to suffocate. Now, it’s not a good idea to put an eleven-foot long greased snake into a glass habitat, so the best bet was to hold her for the hour. This was a formidable task, as Dolores weighed almost seventy pounds, but as i am a robust and muscular individual i stripped down to my underpants, picked up Dolores, and went about my business in a very slippery and greasy way (i was test-fitting new fangs for halloween).
Which was when the mormons stopped by. My housemates had seen them from the front windows, which was why they insisted i answer the door.
Me, befanged, mohawked, tattooed, pierced, greased, naked except for a ripped and sagging pair of drawers and an enthusiastic and friendly seventy-pound oily snake: hi!
Dolores, who was really having such an awesome day: new friends? yes? hello? you have treats?
Mormons: sorry wrong house. (they actually turned whiter i did not think that would have been possible)
Me (to housemates): keep an eye out for the assembly of god folks, okay? we might as well do this right.
One of my SCA buddies was dressed to go to an event when the Mormons knocked. He answered the door in his black, hooded cloak, long knife strapped on, and then looked back and called, “Brothers! The sacrifices have arrived!”
As you might imagine, those were the last Mormons he ever saw at that house.
I got X’d by the mormons because they thought I was summoning a demon (long and complicated story).
My mother got X’d by the mormons for accepting their free Book of Mormon, reading it and then, very politely, over tea, pointing out every single theological inconsistency in it. (This is not the only time my plump, under 5′ mother destroyed men in theological discussion. She had a degree…)
Thus, the Lord sent Mormon missionaries into the land. But if you take a lamb and cover the posts of your door with its blood, and the width of your shoulders with a python, the Mormons shall pass over you, and you shall be spared.
On a somewhat different note, one time my atheist mother felt sorry for a couple of young Mormon missionaries looking like they were about to keel over in the sun. So, she pretty much made them stay for supper. Not at all interested in listening to missionizing, but figuring that kids really couldn’t help being raised expected to go out and do that.
They were respectful after it became politely obvious that nobody wanted to discuss religion, and they were probably more than ready to knock it off for the day and relax over a nice normal family meal.
They were actually invited back, because why not. She didn’t feel less sorry for them after seeing how much they seemed to enjoy it. But, then one of then stopped back by to say “Thanks so much for the hospitality! But, sorry, we’re not supposed to do that 😞”
None ever came back after that the whole time we lived there, either. Maybe unprofessional fraternizing is also enough to get potential converts on a “do not call” list. Does kinda make you wonder.
My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As if somehow this interferes with their ability to teach their classes.
My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years – thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! – and they slip quietly out of class to pray.
My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”
I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems – schedules its WEEKS – around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.
God forbid we temporarily unclip the rope barrier and leave an opening for someone whose religious traditions vary from our own.
Heck, the only holy day we DON’T get off is Ash Wednesday, and that only involves a church service if you’re Catholic.
Like i WANT to understand why conservatives think the things they do but it’s so tough to figure that shit out when what they offer you, more often than not, is a snappy one-liner or “I don’t have to listen to you because if you don’t agree with me 100% you’re a grabber”
It’s… impossible to do anything with that
I think part of it is being raised with a different set of… I dunno, cultural myths? I feel like is the word I’m looking for? They might have the same basic religious/educational pattern as a lot of people who aren’t conservative but when they went home from school/church/scouts they got this whole other thing layered on top of it.
I think some of it comes from the things various churches emphasize – for instance the more evangelical stripes of Christianity in my area are really big on the idea of Christian persecution. It’s a rite of passage for kids in these churches to go attempt to convert people and get yelled at for it so they can go back to the fold and tell stories about how the world really does hate them (protip; they fucking detest it when you forgive them for assuming you were unsaved and then ask to pray with them to help them be filled with the love and compassion of Christ in spreading the word through kindness and hospitality and generosity). The people who show up at college campuses with signs about mouthy women, teh gayz, abortionists, swearword sayers, and so on are doing the same thing. That’s why it’s better to, say, sing opera over them or set up an amp and play loud rock than it is to engage in debate or gather a shouting mob around them. That’s what they want so they can show their church how these liberal colleges discriminate against good, kind, Christians.
And I think that attitude translates to other stuff – you’re a grabber and you’re part of the fallen world and I can never fix you or see eye-to-eye with you and therefore can’t allow myself to be tempted.
[Sidenote: I have some THOUGHTS about CS Lewis and temptation and the isolation and festering ideologies that happen when you’re worried that discourse with the outsiders might interfere with your mere Christianity]
And then there’s a layer of confirmation bias that happens – since they refuse to actually talk to the Libs and hear what they’re saying because “I tried talking to one lib and they used the same talking point that I saw on a facebook meme on the American Patriots page so the lib I was talking to is obviously just as stupid and cruel as the strawman from the meme.”
As much as I hate the whole tone policing, be the bigger person, you’ve got to be kinder than they are sort of thing [because you shouldn’t have to be nicer, you shouldn’t have to be patient with their cruelty, you shouldn’t have to reach farther than they do, it’s not fucking fair and it’s exhausting] that’s kind of where you have to go.
Also you can try sealioning. They seem to enjoy doing it so we might as well see if there’s something to be gained from it. Why do you think I’m trying to grab your guns? Can you point to an example in the US where gun control has resulted in the forcible seizure of firearms? Has a gun control measure ever resulted in a house-to-house search in the US? What about all the people who end up grandfathered in? That happens with every gun control measure, what if your collection was grandfathered? Do you think that the same gun rights should be extended to [X GROUP THEY ARE VERY AFRAID OF, SAY, PERHAPS, ANTIFA WHO CAN TOTALLY BE LEGAL GUN OWNERS FOR THE MOST PART]? What kind of gun control would you like to see for [X GROUP]?
But a part of it is also the whole ingroup/outgroup human bullshit that I don’t know that there *is* a solution to.
Yeah, I think that’s part of it. I was raised liberal Christian, and there was no going out and converting people. There was “showing them the love of Christ” by being kind to them, listening to them, and trying not to judge them. The belief was that eventually they would notice this and ask “why are you so nice” or “why are you doing this” AND THEN you could say “because I was commanded to by my God” and MAYBE they’d get curious and come to church with you. At which point everyone gives them, like, hugs and food because welcome.
At church, politics wasn’t mentioned, but at home, I was always taught that we were liberal because Jesus wanted people to love, help, and protect one another, and the alternative was to be selfish and callous and make Jesus sad.
I’m not saying it was perfect, my mom could be a guilt trip machine when she wanted to be. As a teen I read A LOT of nietzsche and Ayn Rand and wanted to know what Republicans think and why we disagree with them.
But I quickly came to the conclusion that ayn Rand at least didn’t make much sense—I’m disabled, I needed health care, I got it and it’s worthwhile I exist. I could never make not giving back make sense, especially once trickle down didn’t seem to be why middle class people prospered for a while under Reagan.
I’m still curious but I feel like I never get answers when I ask “what did I miss at 17? Why didn’t this stuff convince me? Do you want to try and finish the job?”
I just get like “libtard” and “lol.” I can’t make a coherent worldview out of lol, sorry.
Completely off topic, but I have to ask – did the ‘be nice to make them covert’ thing actually ever work? I assume it could be fairly effective for someone going through a really rough patch where nobody else was being nice to them, but I’d imagine the average person would either not ask, be nice back so not notice, or just not care either way.
I don’t think so, but I don’t think it was designed to make converts in the same way the door knocking thing supposedly is. I think it was more of a “everyone who spreads love and compassion is doing what Jesus wants anyway, extra points if they explain it like we do” kind of deal.
Raised in a religion with a similar philosophy toward making converts. The idea wasn’t “never mention your religion unless directly asked a question you can’t answer honestly without mentioning it” but rather “be open about your religion and the fact that you’re Being Nice because you’re living by the tenets of your religion, but don’t push it on people”.
The idea being that if you do it right, pretty much everyone who knows you should end up with some basic exposure to your religion by you mentioning it in passing when it’s relevant to do so without being pushy and weird about it, and hopefully will recognize that this religion makes you a good person and also want to be a good person themself so will then seek out more info and possibly convert.
Why is it that your family gathers on Christmas in order to celebrate peace? Why not Eid? Why not Rosh Hashanah? Why not a million different holidays from the literal thousands of existing religions?
The reason you’re celebrating on Christmas of all holidays is because you’re culturally Christian. It’s not something to be ashamed of – you just need to be aware of it.
this might sound stupid but would it be right for an athiest raised in a christian culture to celebrate other religions’ holidays in the way of celebrating a time of peace/celebration/family?
I mean, I don’t think sheisawonder is suggesting that. I think they’re just using those other holidays, and the fact cultural Christians don’t celebrate them, as part of the explanation. There’s nothing wrong with celebrating Christian holidays secularly when you’re culturally Christian, and there’s nothing wrong with being culturally Christian either. There are secular Jews and even atheist Jews I know who still celebrate their holidays because that’s there culture.
I think the point is that people should be aware that they’re going to be looking at other religions through a certain lense by default, and that if they want to be objective then they need to try and take a step back and see other religions for what they are, and not through a Christian lens. That includes people wanting to critique religions, and people who are just trying to understand other people.
a while back a number of gentiles expressed to me that they had been taught that Jews don’t consider Jesus Christ to be the Messiah, but that he is considered a prophet in Judaism.
idk where this is coming from, but for the record, Jesus Christ has absolutely no religious significance in Judaism. he was not a prophet. he was certainly not the messiah. he does not play any role whatsoever in Judaism
It’s because there are two types of Judaism: the Mesianic, which believes Jesus came again and Sephartic doesn’t. At least from what I remember.
this is wrong on so many levels
most importantly, “Messianic Judaism” is a recent Christian invention designed to trick Jews into converting to Judaism, and to justify appropriating Jewish traditions. it is not a form of Judaism by any means.
Not according to all the congregations we’ve been to. My family has always been Messianic Jews. I’ve never been told different. We celebrate all the same holidays and do the same things.
Oh, so if the people tricking you into being Christian didnt tell you that they were tricking you, they must not be tricking you. Just fucking google “origins of messianic judaism.” Read the “history” tab in the wikipedia page on messianic “judaism.” Its well documented that messianic Judaism was invented by Christians’s to trick Jews into accepting Christ. It always has been.
I’m not going to yell at someone for not knowing any better, but you’ve been lied to. Maybe the people who lied to you know it, or maybe they were also deceived, but OP is right, he has absolutely no place in any Jewish denomination or tradition. If you follow his teachings, your religion is Christianity. It’s not Judaism.
You have a lot of misinformation about Jewish groups so let me try to give a nutshell version of it. Jews are a diasporic ethnoreligion. This means Jewishness is both an ethnicity and a religion. People who are ethnically Jewish are indigenous to the Levant, which is now the state of Israel. They were forced into exile and now live all over the world.
Sephardic Jews are Jews whose ancestors lived in North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. Ashkenazi Jews are Jews whose ancestors lived in central/Eastern Europe. They developed different customs and cultural traditions because they were in different regions, but they are all Jews. There are also distinct Jewish groups in Africa, India, China, South America, and of course, the Middle East. They may eat different foods, wear different clothes, use different colloquial languages (Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic), have different holiday customs, or pronounce Hebrew differently, but religious Jews follow the same halacha (religious law) no matter where they (or their ancestors) come from. None of them believe that he was the messiah (and in fact, he doesn’t fit the description for who the messiah is or what he’s supposed to do. Everything you’ve been told to the contrary is based on a retroactive Christian reading of scripture, which is NOT how it was/is interpreted by Jews). Anyone who does is a Christian. It is possible to have an ethnically Jewish background and be Christian but if you believe this then your religion is still Christianity and absolutely not Judaism.
There are different denominations among Jews, related to their observance of and belief about Jewish law. Again, none of them believe he was the messiah. No Jewish organization recognizes “messianic Judaism” as a legitimate Jewish denomination. It is Christian. You are Christian.
“Messianic Judaism” is a scam designed to trick Jews into converting to Christianity by making them think that the two religions are basically the same and they are NOT. It is ahistorical and dishonest. I feel legitimately sorry for anyone who was duped by this fraudulent movement, but I cannot soften my criticism. “Messianic Judaism” is an act of attempted cultural genocide. It steals Jewish symbols and rituals without preserving their context or meaning. You claim that this is your religion, yet your comments show that you don’t know anything about Judaism. It is not about blowing a shofar or wearing a tallit. Judaism and Christianity have fundamentally different world views and beliefs about G-d. The goal of “Messianic Judaism” is to get Jews to STOP BEING JEWISH because Judaism and Christianity are not and never will be compatible.
I am sorry for anyone who has been taught this and does not know any better. But now you do. I am not telling you not to be a Christian. Judaism does not believe in proselytizing, or say that you have to be Jewish to be a good person. But do not call your religion Judaism when it is not, because that is an act of violence against Judaism, and now that we have told you, you can no longer be excused on account of ignorance.
This is possibly the best and most polite explanation I’ve read of what is inherently wrong with Messianics. Well said @chiribomb!
I wrote a paper on Messianic “Judaism” for a class many years ago and as a part of that paper, I interviewed Karl Desouza, who was a spokesman for Jews for Jesus in Montreal. I’ll never forget the way he basically admitted that yes, at the end of the day, they were a Christian organization.
J4J and other Messianic groups are especially successful in countries or cities with a large population of descendants of marranos – that is, the Jews who had to convert or die in 15th century Spain. Picture this, if you will. You’re doing your family tree and you discover that your 9th great-grandmother was Jewish and she had to convert or risk getting kicked out of Spain. Maybe she passes down a few customs to her grandchildren, who head to the New World full of vim and vigor and love for Jesus, but they also light candles on Friday night even if they don’t know why. The family continues and here you are, in 2018, discovering that you have maternal Jewish ancestry. You don’t know what to do with that information, so you head to the nearest synagogue in town. Unfortunately, it’s a Messianic synagogue. Now you’re being told that this is Judaism, this is the way you can embrace your heritage but it’s totally cool that you also love Jesus.
I went to a Shabbat service at a Messianic temple in Montreal, also as part of the paper I was writing, and at least 80% of the congregants were of Latin American and African heritage. I would not have been at all surprised if a number of them did actually have Jewish ancestry. Messianics who claim to be Jewish are predators posing as lambs.
For those reading this who are curious about the earlier point about Jesus not meeting the qualifications for “Messiah” as that role is understood within Judaism, I want to explore that further so you can understand just how theologically bankrupt this scam is.
You see the Messiah, as that figure tends to be understood in Judaism, is going to end all hunger. Heal all sickness. End all war. When the Messiah comes, everyone is coming back from the dead.
But the Proto-Christian sects, way back in the Second Temple Period, were heavily into a radical concept of individualism. They argued that when an action happened to just one person, it was the same as if it had happened to the entire world. So to qualify as the Messiah, a person would only have to bring one person back from the dead, end hunger for one person, so on and such forth.
This argument was going on loooong before anyone started saying the Messiah had already come and he was a guy named Yeshua. It is one of the most fundamental things to understand when it comes to why Jesus literally can not possibly be the Messiah when a person understands that term within a Jewish context.
From the Jewish perspective, the Messiah seriously changes things. The Messiah alters the fundamental nature of the universe and is linked to concepts like the closest thing Rabbinic Judaism has to an afterlife (עולם הבא/Olam HaBa/The World to Come) since well… people returning from the dead when the Messiah comes is basically our entire afterlife concept.
So you see, in order for Messianic “Judaism” to argue that Jesus was the Messiah, they have revisit and renegotiate this big ole argument from the ancient world. An argument that touches on key philosophical understandings of the world around us (we’re still heavy on the communal emphasis to this day) and the only answer anyone in Judaism really has to the whole death question (luckily that isn’t that big a deal, as we tend to think what happens in the here and now is a billion times more important than anything else).
But they aren’t interested in any of that. Instead they are just taking Christianity and sticking some Jewish trappings on it and then are saying that is that.
Like you literally can not have a group that believes Jesus was the Messiah and have that group be Jewish all at the same time. It is a theological nightmare.
One they have no care to address, because their goal is simply getting people to convert.
So yeah, Messianic “Judaism” is nothing but a scam designed to trick Jews into converting to Christianity. They’re not even putting forth something theologically interesting, they’re just straight up advocating for Christian conversion (the same as any number of antisemitic groups throughout history).
“An Indianapolis church protested President Donald Trump’s child separation policy by “detaining” statues of baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a chain-linked, enclosed cage on their lawn.
“The statement with the Holy Family says as much about our policy as any statement would say,” the Rev. Canon Lee Curtis of Christ Church Cathedral, who came up with the idea, told NBC News. “We want an end for family detention. Families, all families, every family, is holy, and we hope and pray that families who are seeking out a better life for their kids are afforded that opportunity.”
“I know what the Bible said,” Carlsen told the Indy Star. “We’re supposed to love our neighbors as ourselves.”
Why is it that your family gathers on Christmas in order to celebrate peace? Why not Eid? Why not Rosh Hashanah? Why not a million different holidays from the literal thousands of existing religions?
The reason you’re celebrating on Christmas of all holidays is because you’re culturally Christian. It’s not something to be ashamed of – you just need to be aware of it.
Huh. I’d never thought about it that way.
I know, right?
To be honest, I hadn’t either, not on any bone-deep level, until I started seriously considering converting, and it was only when I started realizing it on a personal level. But, then, I am also lucky in that we live in a school district where Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah and several other non-Xian holidays are given days off, which is just not the norm anywhere but in those gosh darn liberal enclaves on the coast. 😛
This feels really relevant to me too. I stopped being Xian over a decade ago, and I felt…annoyed, honestly, that I was still expected, by family and friends both, to celebrate all of the major Xian holidays even despite being at that time an atheist/pagan. And that’s only increasing my discomfort now that I’m converting to Judaism.
I don’t even know if I can keep having conversations about religion with my parents anymore, our views on faith and holidays and deities are so different now.
My parents basically just ignore the fact that @dadhoc and @mistresskabooms and I all converted. I hoped right up until the last second that they would show up to our Adult B’nai Mitzvah, especially knowing I was giving the sermon, but, welp, they didn’t.
Our class has gotten close though so it was okay. My mispacha was there, and one of the other converts in the class, her dad came, so that was good.
Off topic, so anyway.
I’d also like to add (for the fellow Gentiles out there) it’s NOT just the “obvious” things like Celebrating Christmas, either.
It is so, SO many “little things” that you don’t realize ARE Christian-influenced, that you might not even if you stopped and thought about it, because they’re SUCH a part of “secular” culture that you just assumed That’s The Way It Is For Everybody.
I had no idea for example, that the idea you had to have a witness in order for a marriage between two people to be “valid” was something not all religions and systems shared, until a Jewish person over on the NaNoWriMo forums corrected me and said “actually, you can do it just by the two agreeing if they’re above a certain age, in Judaism; it’s still considered religiously valid”.
In the USA, for a marriage to be LEGALLY recognized by the State?
It HAS to have both an Officiant (not necessarily a Priest or Pastor of your own religion; sea captains, judges, and anybody who gets the right piece of paper, can do that), and a Witness. I know this, because I am Legally Married and it was part of the process; I had to get a friend to Officiate and a second friend to sign off as Witness on the paperwork.
And I knew on some level this was partly from “religions” “traditionally” requiring it…but I had NO IDEA this was really a Gentile thing, a Goy thing, in specific!
I just….assumed that since verifying it happened was “logical”, all religions would naturally require at LEAST an Officiant OR a Witness if not both, “though I could be wrong” I (very thankfully) admitted. Which in hindsight, is a big Assumption, thank goodness I left myself open for correction lol.
And see, I wasn’t even RAISED going to Church; my parents were ~liberals~ who basically raised me Agnostic.
But I was raised by a dad whose parents were Protestant, and a mom who went to Catholic school as a kid. I grew up in the American South. I grew up in America, and America is so darn Christianized, that it doesn’t matter that such things aren’t a requirement in Judaism, because they’re a requirement in Christian practice, so they become a requirement in the secular realm as well.
Even the very definition of “religion” is often mistaken for REQUIRING a “belief in the supernatural or a literal higher power” – not because this is in any way anthropologically accurate (not only does Judaism technically allow for the opposite, so do some variants of Hinduism; There’s posts on that blog that covered it better actually but you might have to dig for them; at least those both mention it), but – ding ding!
That’s still how many people in the West think it’s “defined” because that’s the requirements of the Christian religion. A belief in a literal higher power.
Like, I have seen Culturally Christian atheists INSIST that you cannot possibly be “religiously Jewish” AND an atheist/not believe in a literal higher power, only to be corrected by actual Jewish people that “uh, no? That’s not how it works, you’re thinking of CHRISTIANITY?”.
Because they were so entrenched in the Christian Definition of Religion, it never even occurred to them that there was such a thing as a “religion” that did it differently than that.
Because even “secular” society in the West usually defines it that way, because Christianity does.
Heck, the idea of “Judeo-Christian” is…heh, well. Ask a Jewish person or two and if they have the energy you’ll probably get a nice rant on why that term is a serious misnomer; but it’s VERY common to treat Judaism as if it was just the “precursor” to Christianity, as if Christianity is just an extension of Judaism with an extra set of Books, and it’s…it’s not. It’s REALLY not. That thinking stems from Christian cultures trying to simultaneously erase actual Jewish culture (where it actually differed from theirs), and pretending that theirs ~supplanted~ it and ~took its place~ like the New and Improved version, which… of course, being that most Christian sects insist that Christianity is The One True Religion, of COURSE they did.
Even the idea of weekends is pretty much derived from the habit of most Christians to make Sunday a Sabbath and “day of rest” (some Christians do actually use Saturday instead – much like Jewish folk do – but Catholics and a majority of Protestant sects use Sunday).
Even some Really Big “little things” are more Christianized than you think though.
There’s…I mean off the top of my head, that’s it, but there’s definitely more I’m not even remembering and I’m sure quite a few that I’m not even personally aware of yet.
Personally, I’ve found that the more I learn about other cultures, religions, history, etc, the more I realize how very insular and Very Specific and perhaps even culturally weird in the grand scheme of things, my own upbringing was. That’s not a bad thing though! As far as I’m concerned, it’s just helping me learn what my biases and assumptions are, so A+ 10/10 recommend expanding your awareness of this stuff. ❤
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