I don't get this "proposing" with going down on your knees in US culture.
it's so weird.
like this knight thing in UK where the queen is waving a sword over you.

while we're at it: I don't get marriage.

@distelfliege reminds me of a docu from Austria from a Catholic University I once saw on EWTN, the Professor had a clipboard with pairs of various mammals (doggos, people, cats etc) and explained things that should usually be taught in late junior school. Rest of the profs started coughing loudly out of embarrasment when any parts of the body were mentioned so I couldn't hear if he meant
/optimal/ oder "maximal" 10 bis 20(!) Kinder" (which was the reason given to become and stay married) ++

@distelfliege although I guess they meant well, the whole way this was put together (and it was part 1 of 10 of a larger series young couples were supposed to watch) was more likely to scare them away from having *any* Kinder at all, and I've read separately that were it not for the migration (that angry young people in AT are making sch a fuss about) the whole country would eventually depopulate..

@vfrmedia I have no idea about Austria tbh so I don't know if this absurd catholic masterpiece is very representative for current austrian society 😂

@distelfliege it was very recentl, about 2016 (I used to supply equipment to that same University in the late 1990s), EWTN DE is also run by Americans who insist on controlling content from Alabama which skews them more towards traditionalism.

K-TV from Bavaria/Switzerland is sane and normal in comparison (better production quality too), recently they have more female presenters and in kids/youth programming (which I can at least understand) encourage young lads as well as girls to make art

@vfrmedia "sane" and "normal" aren't really positive words for me..

@distelfliege fair enough, what surprised me about this channel is for a religious broadcaster they weren't /anywhere/ as full on about things like moral policing in comparison to EWTN and seemed closer to their communities (they have stuff like Franciscans presenting documentaries about what nature/wildlife you'd find in the mountains of Bayern/Tirol and also the Bavarian resistance against Nazis in WW II and why this led to a chapel being built in what is otherwise the middle of nowhere..)

@vfrmedia I googled EWTN and wikipedia says it's the largest religious broadcasting service of the world, I'm surprised it's catholic, I thought protestants/evengelical fundies would be on top of the game when it cames to "televangelization"

interesting...

@vfrmedia I think in regional christian organizations in south germany you'll find more diversity of topics, because they are often the only organizations where people can have a social life at all. that's true for the village I grew up in.

the downside: everything is tainted by a christian perspective. the upside: the christians can't be and won't be as "hardliners" as their central organs would want them to be.

I'm kind of glad I don't have to live there any more, though I miss nature, the countryside, the less polluted air, the forests..