[majoe]

> hypocrisy of organised religion

- There is a local religious festival

- People prepare delicious meals according to the local culinary tradition.

- The Catholic church doesn't have any rules, which would restrict the consumption of the prepared meals.

I fail to see the hypocrisy. If you want to start a discussion about the ethics of eating food, you surely find a more suited place.

[koziserek]

Definitely not a place or time for extended discussion on this, but I'm quite hopeful that in another century or two it will become a shameful page in history books - the fact that when we were already able to sustain our civilisation without generating unnecessary suffering of other beings - we continued to do so out of convenience.

500 years ago if you were born into peasant family, you usually stayed peasant no matter what personal effort and talent you brought to this world.

200 years ago your sister would be treated as a posession of a guy who married her.

I'm happy that our beautiful traditions evolve into more thoughtful iterations.

And I hope that logic and kindness will continue to increase their impact on our lives and policies.

Merry Christmas.