wheels wrote:Sorry, after a couple of drinks I forgot
See? Your teetotal forebears were right!
wheels wrote:That said, religion is probably a subject best left to elsewhere. I shouldn't have raised it.
It's hard to offend me: I'm an atheist who's parents were Jewish, living in an area with a large proportion of young-earth creationist, evolution-denying Southern Baptists. My wife and her family are German Catholic, except for one who's a Jehovah Witness. Two of my cousins have also married Catholics, but one married an Orthodox Jew.
So to summarize: I don't care if someone wants to cut off a bit of skin from male infants' weenies ... but I insist on stuffing meat into pork casings. And forbidding beer and scotch... well that's just heresy.
I'd rather grill a steak than burn someone at the stake. Throwing to a party and being a host sounds like more fun than taking communion and eating the host. Planes are for transportation, not building demolition.
And there's ususally something I can learn from someone else's culture.... and appropriate for my own use.