Because meditation and going inwards allows a person to realize that they don’t need the Church in order to feel balanced and whole as a person.

Even if you accept the premise of the Church that using other religion’s practices is problematic, I don’t see how changing the name and nothing else would resolve the issue. Ultimately, if yoga is spiritually corrosive for Christians, they shouldn’t practice it at all. Calling it something else doesn’t make sense.

As a former Catholic, I was surprised that they could steal all kinds of things from pagan traditions, but yoga = BAD.

This is it. This is the whitest thing I’ve ever heard of. They did it.

I think if you look closely, you’ll see that she’s a baby.

In my experience it seems like cats would prefer if you don’t talk at all. :/

If you come out un-maimed, it may be ok.

Just because the country was officially atheist doesn’t mean the populace was. Persecution doesn’t usually lead to genuine (de-)conversion.

Also, men who take these “female-coded” jobs, like nurses or teachers, get paid more than women, so the argument that it’s about the choice of jobs is total fucking bullshit.

“The only difference being that Chechnya has a Muslim majority doing this.”

The barriers between culture and religion are permeable - they intermix. Culture creates religion and religion influences culture. There are features both of Christianity and of Islam that are hostile to homosexuality. Not surprising when one considers their common origin. Orthodox Judaism is also fairly hostile to…

This man is disgusting. I mean I know that’s the most obvious statement since “it sure is hard to see at night,” but sometimes you just have to write these things down or it feels like you held in a sneeze. 

Men like Kadyrov represent the crumbling edge of modern civilization. Without any economic or diplomatic power…

I am quite certain a Novaya Gazeta reporter, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for reporting on atrocities from the Chechen wars a few years back, she is not the first, she is not the last. I fear for the lives of the folks reporting on this.

Article: FGM is bad.

It doesn’t merit discussion. Because this article isn’t about male circumcision. Articles about cancer don’t merit discussion about AIDS, because the article isn’t about that. It’s not dismissing AIDS, it’s just not discussing it.

You might be a woman but you still retain your pre-transition level of male entitlement and desire to mansplain to others about stuff you don’t understand. When you are born with a vagina and it is cut away as a child and sewn shut and infected then you can talk.

I often wonder if these twitlets have ever even experienced real sexual attraction. It seems like they only define “attraction” as “social currency,” so if somebody manages to hit the parameters of whatever is the current agreed upon “hot standard,” they just decide that person must be who they’re attracted to,…

You’re right, it shouldn’t be treated as a contest. Which is why when people chime in with “whataboutthis” on every single FGM article that ever existed, they should be righteously told the shut the fuck up and take a seat.

The Pentagon is thrilled with Trump because he lets them try out all their new toys that they weren’t allowed to play with under Obama.

Hot take: it’s fucking ridiculous to have a fashion magazine in a region where women are put to death for wearing the fashions. Like, there’s bigger stuff to do over there.