I found it less sweet/rich (hard to recall.... if you managed to catch me right after I taste one, I will let you know).

Same with Green Bean paste; when cold, you can kinda use it interchangely, but there is a little bit of grassy flavor

Well, they will be justified by faith.

I want to claim that's a joke, but I am starting to wonder if that passage is literally what that means.

Others already told you about Catholic prespective. I suggest you also take a look at the Orthodox's fasting rule, which is even more strict

There's a few others, but that's over 2000 years ago, but that's original Olympic games, with fear/respect of greek gods in people.

...did I basically equate Pele to a greek god? I will take it.

I know you laugh about that, but somehow I suspect Catholic hate on socialism (there's actual Papal letters/document abotu why Socialism is always communism) and Orthodox stating non recognizing Immaculate Conception after Catholic proclaim it as infallible (so I heard) are all example of such.

Everything is good until someone you dislike agree to it - then it's not.

Look on the brightside: You ain't the only group of Protestants that acts contrarians. In fact, sometimes I feel many traditions, habit, and "culture" are due to being contrarian.

Another way to see it is what is it compared.

I remember reading on the Laws of Power in how they describe the failure of Portugese in Japan when compared to Dutch - in that Portugese also do some evangelization, which pissed the shogunate off, while Dutch just focus on trading things Japan want, and thus establish good relationship.

Above point is not to talk about necessary facts, but to point out how, in terms to gaining power, one need to provide things that the other people care.

Yes, I know about that. However, Manchu was its own nation, as with Ming China until Qing, where Manchu took over the Chinese government.

In terms of studying the Qing Dynasty - especially in terms of non-China territorial action, at what point should it be consider as actions of Manchu, vs action of Qing China?