Catholic Culture Puns

I am a devout Catholic with strong beliefs regarding many things, but that doesn't mean im not open to an engaging, honest, intellectual discussion about all the important questions in the world.

If you have any questions or just want to chat about anything please feel free to do so.

If you more than just a question you want a spirited debate that's fine too, and I'll even make you this deal: If you are willing to have an honest conversation with me and genuinely consider my positions, I'll be honest with you and consider yours as well. Seem fair?

I request that no matter if you agree or disagree with me or anyone else in this post, please be respectful to all those who participate.

But really AMA!

Before we begin: first post here, oman I'm not good with computer so formatting is all over the place, never spoke a word of English in my entire life, yadda yadda...

So, /r/askspain. A fairly small sub where you can ask question about, well, Spain. Currently like 80% of posts are about COVID entry requirements, places to see in overly touristic locations, whether there are any brits in Benidorm, and so on. Naturally, when a post titled "Dating as a Catholic in Spain?" was submitted, it got quite a lot of attention, reaching over 200 comments before getting locked and removed. So, what happened?

Well, the now-removed post (reveddit link) was simple enough:

>I just moved to the Santander/Torrelavega area from Louisiana in the United States. I’m 24 and hoping to find someone around my age or younger. What is dating like for Catholics here? Where is the best place to meet Catholic singles? At church, or are there enough practicing Catholics here that I’m likely to meet some outside of church. Any other related info would be much appreciated.

Naturally, several proper answers were given, for instrance:

> I'd suggest you to drop the whole deal you may had in US. Specially if you come from some conservative area (which LA may be) In Spain we don't really care about this kind of thing :) open your mind a little and just meet people. Even if you manage to find "Catholics" to date or hang out with they won't be anything like in US Also noone speak english in Spain...so your circle is just gonna be minimal and you will miss a big deal of our culture and people

and

> In church you will find mostly grandpas. Maybe in volunteering or groups of Catholic organizations you will find something.

as well as

>I guess living in Barcelona makes things slightly different , but so far my experience is that every one wants to fuck every one in Spain ( just like the dornish people in game of throne) so yeah good luck finding anyone your age wanting a serious Christian relationship

So, where is the drama? Well, bear

I've been looking on Catholic Catacombs under Cathedrals and it made me really wish there was a good book with mystery around a cathedral/castle or anything medieval, extra point if it has a good fantasy.

Catholic life in Igboland, Nigeria's catholic stronghold

Historical background: Igboland's rapid journey into a catholic bastion

I dont really want resources right now or advice, I just want to talk.

I have a relatively good job that pays a good wage, especially since my field is in an arts field. I have a nice put together home, even if I'm just renting it. I have a spouse who loves me. I have friends. My mother and my grandparents are alive and well, and they love me no matter what. My in-laws are amazing people who love and accept me. I've had interesting experiences, I've had talented hobbies, I have 3 dogs that are my own to care for.

So why do I hate myself so much. Why is none of that enough. Why do I think I'm not doing enough, I'm not a better person, I'm not making more money, I'm not hiding my mental illnesses well enough. if I was a better person I wouldn't have auto immune diseases, if I wasn't sexually assaulted so many times I'd be healthier, if I wasn't sick I wouldn't waste SO MUCH TIME distracting myself from symptoms, and trying to silence that little voice of guilt and self hatred that I hear all day, everyday.

Its all learned shame. All of it. From my own family, my childhood traumas, their religious leanings, the religious culture at my school, at youth groups, all of it. Talking about it down to its very roots, its all generational trauma and religious trauma. and in my family, none of this gets talked about. I have intense guilt all the time. And instead of it driving me to be better, it's killing me. I think if I hadn't gotten therapy and medication, it would have killed me sooner. I wish I had been treated even sooner, this has been going on for 14 years, and only 2-3 of those years have included treatment.

I know I'm getting better as the years go on, but this is hard.

Change our official name to Aotearoa

https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/nz_to_aotearoa

>Tōku reo, tōku ohooho. Tōku reo, tōku māpihi maurea. Tōku reo, tōku whakakai marihi.
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>Te Pāti Māori are calling for the House of Representatives to;
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>Change the country’s official name to Aotearoa and
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>Officially restore the Te Reo Māori names for all towns, cities and place names.
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>It’s well past time that Te Reo Māori was restored to its rightful place as the first and official language of this country. We are a Polynesian country – we are Aotearoa.
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>Name changes over our whenua and the imposition of a colonial agenda in the education system in the early 1900s meant that Te Reo Māori fluency among our tupuna went from 90% in 1910 to 26% in 1950. In only 40 years, the Crown managed to successfully strip us of our language and we are still feeling the impacts of this today. It’s totally unacceptable that 20% of the Māori population and 3% of people living in Aotearoa can speak te reo Māori.
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>Article 3 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi promises tangata whenua the same rights as British citizens, that Te Reo Māori me ōna tikanga katoa be treated and valued exactly the same as the English language.
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>This petition calls on Parliament to change New Zealand to Aotearoa and begin a process, alongside whānau, hapū and iwi, local government and the New Zealand Geographic Board to identify and officially restore the original Te Reo Māori names for all towns, cities and places right across the country by 2026.
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>Tangata whenua are sick to death of our ancestral names being mangled, bastardised, and ignored. It’s the 21st Century, this must change.
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>It is the duty of the Crown to do all that it can to restore the status of our language. That means it needs to be accessible in the most obvious of places; on our televisions, on our radio stations, on road signs, maps and official advertising, and in our education system.
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>Please support this petition, share far and wide and let us bring our Aotearoa hou into realisation.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/te-taura-whiri-i-te-reo-maori/12-09-2021/kia-kaha-the-intergenerational-struggle-to-preserve-te-reo-maori/

>Kia kaha: The i

Firstly,sorry for my bad english,not a native speaker.

HEAVY SPOILERS FOR HIGURASHI,CICONIA AND UMINEKO.

So...i've been seeing some people here talking about how Higurashi and the rest of the WTC series should be separated in its entirety.

While i do understand their point,reading 160+ hours of content is intimidating,you dont really need to read umineko or ciconia to enjoy higurashi and vice versa. They are self contained stories that hint at a bigger story.

For example : you dont need to read umineko to understand gou. Yes,umineko does give some context into the witches and all,but Umineko is all about Beatrice and Battler,just like Higurashi is about Rika struggling to defeat fate.

With that out of the way,lets talk about the bigger story ; Thing is,we dont know a whole lot about it,except for some hints sprinkled in bettwen all games. I'll try to list some of them :

WTC Seems to be based on the catholic afterlife. Umineko being based on Dantes inferno is a faint example of that,but not the only one.

Higurashi seems to be hell. Why? Well,Hinamizawa was (and still is kinda) ruled by demons. Oyashiro sama herself was a demon. Hinamizawa was quite literally a Hell to Rika. Neverending and soulcrushing. Higurashis logo is also a loop with blood tainted on it...which could be a representation of hell.(endless suffering)

Umineko is quite obviously Purgatorio,as the META world was called many times a Purgatorio. A place where the ushiromiya family goes to repent their sins(and they actually manage to do that in ep8). We got a lot of demonic imagery and demons showing up on Umineko,but we also got angels and heavenly corps.(Their leader being a literal gauntlet knight)

Ciconia must be heaven then. Not only due to process of elimination,but also because :

Ciconia is closely tied with the bible. Their logo has literal angel feathers on it. Gauntlet knights are obviously a reference to angels,from their symbology,to the fact that they literally are called flying angels sometimes in the story.(Dlanor seems to be from here aswell,since shes obviously a gauntlet knight,and a angel aswell.) Also,in the end...Jayden literally shows up as a flying angel to Miyao.

Now...so what? what does it all mean? Well... We dont know yet. Everything could be stories written by Ikuko and Tohya(kinda lame if you ask me). It could be just universes that the witches use as playgrounds...or.... everything could be a simulation.

The answer for that,is in the catbox yet. But

Title says it all.

Sarah Parshall Perry: ‘One school district in the Bay Area has enforced mandatory, critical race theory-based “ethnic studies” lessons beginning in preschool. In another district, a San Diego high school principal and school board skirted the law in their rush to erase California history and the legacy of a Catholic saint after whom the high school was named, deeming St. Junipero Serra to be a colonialist with a racist past.’

‘What began as a student effort to change the school’s mascot from the Conquistadors to the Rattlers, apparently inspired Junipero Serra High School Principal Erica Renfree to change the school’s name to “Canyon Hills High School/Mat Kwatup KunKun.”’

“The school's name will become Canyon Hills High School/Mat Kwatup KunKun, the latter representing the Kumeyaay translation of the school's new name.”

So this is a bit of weird (and possibly triggering) subject. I was recently talking to a friend who grew up in an evangelical non-denominational church and she was telling me her church offered a ministry/support group of “sexually broken” women/women “addicted to sex.” However, they offered no such ministry or group to men.

This got me thinking about the own purity culture slut shaming show I was raised in. While it was a fucking mess and caused my friend and I enormous anxiety about how sex or frankly any type of romantic relationship, it never seemed to be super directed at women vs men.

I was wondering if anybody has experiences or tales of some targeted purity culture shenanigans towards women