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  • I went to university in Canada for engineering in the early 1980s. We had to learn both Imperial and metric, because almost all the textbooks and equipment came from the US. We would usually convert into metric to do all calculations and then convert back at the end because to do otherwise is insanity.

    I would guess that the same is still true today, because the equipment and textbooks still come from the US.





  • There are so many flavors of protestantism, it’s hard to give a blanket answer.

    For example, high Anglican practice and theology are almost indistinguishable from Catholic, except that the head of their Church is an archbishop (and above him theoretically the King of England) rather than a pope, and their priests can get married. That makes some historical sense, because the church was created simply because Henry the 8th wanted to divorce and the Pope wouldn’t allow it.

    Most mainline Protestant churches believe that it is the individual’s right and responsibility to read and interpret scripture for themselves.


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    4 months ago

    I don’t think your quote at all addresses the concept of whether Catholics doctrine declares the Bible to be literally true. Inerrant, yes.

    I think there is confusion because the church believes that some passages should be taken literally and other symbolically, and the church will tell you which is which.


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    4 months ago

    Almost exactly 50% of Christians in the world are Catholics, who acknowledge that the Bible is allegorical and not literal truth.

    If you are referring to fundamentalists (typically evangelicals), yes most of them do believe in the literal truth. Evangelicals in the US are about 24% of the population, and most likely Less in the rest of the world.








  • Most that I discovered while living there. I only had two weeks notice about my job, so I didn’t even have a chance to learn any language before flying to Japan.

    There were simple pressures like being stared at all the time, because I lived in a smaller city that didn’t have many foreigners.

    Being required to submit my passport to buy travelers checks, even though it was a joint account with my Japanese wife, who didn’t have to provide hers.

    And ones that were not unique to being foreign, but were still difficult for me to deal with, like 3 hours of commuting every day on one of those packed trains you sometimes see.

    At the time, telephoning from Japan to Canada cost about $1.30 per minute, and the internet had not really arrived, so I was somewhat cut off from my family and other personal supports.

    There were also difficulties in my marriage and my work situation that certainly didn’t help.