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I love pedantic trivia like this! :)

It's not Winklevoss, it's the Wrinkle-Boss! ;) That kind of smug bastardy doesn't come cheap, ya know.

Fun factoid: Orthodox take their communion from the chalice with the (leavened) bread mixed with the wine. You get a little piece of bread and some wine on a spoon. Nothing like matzoh.

It's called "the Eucharist," and what the Orthodox Church believes isn't called transubstatiation. During the Mystery of the Eucharist, the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ. No Aristotelian/Thomas Aquinas-based philosophical explanation. Just Mystery.

Let me be the second! Your username is awesomesauce! :)

It doesn't matter if it's sacred to you. It's sacred to them.
If nothing else, it's basic, common-sense politeness to respect someone else's sacred things, even if you don't believe in them yourself. There are LOTS of things I don't believe in that I still treat with respect out of respect to those who do.

Where's the tongue-biting, exactly?

I think all religions are worthy of respect. Including that of (the philosophy of, I should say) atheists/secularists/humanists/agnostics/etc. It is the polemic of disrespect that gets my dander up. We've all gotta share this world with each other, guys. Let's all play nice.

"I'm looking at this "it's sacred" line of reasoning and having trouble stomaching it."

Yeah, that's how we got in this situation in the first place, and that's why we're having this discussion.

One reason this is such a sore spot for Native Americans is that many of their sacred spaces have been taken away with just…

Yikes! :(

Thank you. Bad grammar makes my eyes bleed.

I always thought that Canada was Way Better to the First Nations than their counterparts in the US of A. Tolerance of the voyageurs, the existence of the Metis, honoring treaties with the Iroquois, etc...Maybe I have an overly romanticized view of Canadian history?

No thanks!

Should I be glad that I don't know how to Skype?

Ah. That explains everything.

Yeah—it ISN'T Christianity that they possess. It's something else.

Whereas I use a jar of peanut butter until every single nubbin of peanut butter is gone from the dratted jar, darnit.

I'll eat nearly anything as leftovers....anything but salad.
Salad just doesn't keep.

That is just outrageous, Sisterfunkhaus! Was she confused as to how blue cheese is supposed to look? That the marbled mold is a design feature?
::Beats head against wall::

^^This.