The Spanish laws say that your children must inherit at least a third of your estate. You can’t completely desinherit them, so if he had a child, that testament wasn’t valid.

I don’t know. There are enough things in modern Christianism that would baffle him that I think that maybe he has given up and stopped watching us a long time ago. He preached compassion and taking care of the less unfortunate and said how difficult it was to reach the Heaven if you were rich but there are people…

I object to the “Taliban Christians” part. There is a lot of competition for that title and, if the Evangelical want it, they can fight for it with other radical christians groups, like the Opus Dei. As a matter of fact, as soon as they don’t bother anybody else, I suggest the hierarchy of that kind of groups decide…

In Philippines some people are crucifixed during Easter

Most people in Spain don’t practice siestas except on weekends or holidays. People have jobs, school, college, etc... most bosses and teachers aren’t too kind to people who sleeps on the job or in class.

I didn’t see the film ( I was disappointed that it was not about the Japanese Christians, but about the Jesuits) but I think that the idea that the Japanese were worried about their culture is a bit of a simplification. The politics of the time, the power struggle between different factions in Japan (and the power…

I didn’t see the film ( I was disappointed that it was not about the Japanese Christians, but about the Jesuits) but I think that the idea that the Japanese were worried about their culture is a bit of a simplification. The politics of the time, the power struggle between different factions in Japan (and the power…

Probably, because of history, and all the illegitimate children that were ignored by their parents, left without an education and a mean to live with dignity, even when their parents had lot of money (I don’t know if it was the same in USA, but illegitimate children and their mothers had a very hard time in some parts…

That’s not how the law in Spain works, your direct descendants have a right to your money, if you don’t want to. There is a minimum percent you must leave to your kids.

Is there any reason for the colors in the clothes? It seems like everything is in somber colors (black, brown, dark red..) or seems faded and not very vivid. I don’t know if it is because of the tone of the show or because of the kind of pigments for clothes that you could get before the Industrial Revolution weren’t…

If you want to try her books, the first novel (there is a prequel novella) of her Brother Sinister series is available for free at Smashwords (legally, I mean), the title is The Duchess War. It’s not my favourite book by Courtney Milan, but you can check if you like her style before spending your money. I really like…

One of my favourite romance writers (really, one of my favourite writers, period), Courtney Milan, has books about the Victorian period that are fun and witty, with balls and romance, and pretty dresses...and at the same time she manages to show how awful the life was for everybody who was not rich, straight, white…

I thought that maybe the woman who was pushed had a headscarf and the other woman thought something about “fighting terrorism”. The part “her head was up—kinda proud of what she did.”makes you think that there was a story here. ¿Racism?¿Revenge?

Or at least he could be more explicit with his messages. If he wants people to know that he doesn’t like gay sex, he could make a message appear in the sky to say so. Or a plague of locusts devouring every gay marriage certificate.

The infallibility of the Pope doesn’t apply to everything that he says, and infallible doctrines are, in fact, very rare and there are strict rules to be considered as such.

Of course we should never forget what happened to the Jewish victims, and why it happened. But at the same time, there is a certain erasure of other groups, to the point that groups that were victims of the Holocaust have difficulties to be recognized as such.

I have known several people whose life was destroyed by alcohol, or died because of it, but none because of pot (not saying those people don’t exist, some people can have really bad reactions to cannabis). I’m not anti-alcohol (although, after having to grow up with a drunk with violent tendencies in my family, I’m…

Do you know if there are the same restrictions for places that sell alcohol?

Not at all. I would have answered earlier, but I didn’t receive any notification, I don’t know why.

Most of the victims of the holocaust were Jewish people, but they weren’t the only victims tortured or sent to concentration camps: people with disabilities, gypsies, people who opposed the nazies...(fair warning: the testimonies in the article that I link below are very graphic and absolutely heartbreaking)