We, Orthodox Christians, somehow manage to celebrate Pascha (which does not coincide with the Catholic and Protestant Easter) without making a nuisance out of ourselves. Our priests remind us every year that making an issue of our fast to others is a sin. If the choice is between eating what you shouldn’t and rubbing your fasting virtue into other people’s faces, the choice should always be to accept the food quietly and not make yourself the center of attention. The moment when the fast becomes a way to lord it over others, we have betrayed the whole point of the fast as mandated by the Lord.
Yes, we are only 1% of the population. But Muslims are only 5% of the population in Spain. These are comparable numbers. You can be a minority without being a dick.
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You can be a minority without being a dick.
Only if one’s religion and culture require it.
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Jesuits, though:
https://x.com/i/status/2029906363237949706
I support exhorting people in a sermon not to use bad language. But getting them jailed?
These are not the Jesuits I know from history.
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In the meantime, a Senegalese child rapist in Spain gets sentenced to 60 days of community service:
https://okdiario.com/baleares/pacto-verguenza-joven-senegales-que-violo-nina-piso-palma-no-entrara-prision-16305948#
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“making an issue of our fast to others is a sin”
I remember several years ago a foreign colleague was retiring and returning home. On one of his last days some people (from a few different countries and including me) very spontaneously decided to go out to a last dinner with him.
This seemed to pose a temporary problem for a muslim colleague as it was Ramadan in late May so sunset wasn’t until after 9 pm or so.
Rather than not go out with friends including the departing colleage or sitting there hungry in the restaurant watching us stuff our faces or trying to convince everyone to reschedule or wait until after sunset… they decided to break their fast early that day explaining that that is allowed and they would make up the that missed day soon after Ramadan was over.
Very reasonable and we all had a good time.
Moral: Reasonably normal people can be reasonable and a refusal to consider reasonable alternatives is a sign of a disturbed personality.
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Yes. The performative bureaucrats who came up with this are very disturbed. Sick, sick bunnies.
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