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I am religious and believe in free will

70 (27.6%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

113 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (24%)

Total Members Voted: 249

[Descan]

It suppresses them aboooout as much as it suppresses Flat Earthers.

[Loud Whispers]

I think the solution may be to laugh at them

We tried that in Europe, people got beheaded

[Bohandas]

It suppresses them aboooout as much as it suppresses Flat Earthers.

Well I don't think flat-earth is the official ideology of any nation

[Orange Wizard]

A lot of the spread post-Constantine was political. Suddenly, instead of being barred from public office (iirc), Christians were suddenly the only group eligible for it. So the nobility and senate flocked to the new official religion. And then status quo ensued for another thousand or so years, in all the countries born out of Rome's collapse.

Except for all the countries now full of protestants, new pope^tm catholicism, everyone in the east, all the meditteranean muslim countries and so on

Well, the Reformation was a hiccup along the way. Still Christianity, just with fewer priests. The Schism is pretty weird politically speaking; I can't really comment on that very well.

Spread of Islam is (mostly, afaik) the same thing as Rome/Christianity, with the Umayyads blobbing all over the place, then disintegrating into a bunch of independent Muslim nations. They just managed to eat a few Christian provinces in the process.

[Descan]

It suppresses them aboooout as much as it suppresses Flat Earthers.

Well I don't think flat-earth is the official ideology of any nation

Either way, laughing at them isn't likely to be suppressive. Hell, it'd be less suppressive, since Christianity is riding in so many people in power to defend it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I think the solution may be to laugh at them

We tried that in Europe, people got beheaded

You know what the fucked up part is though? They're way more upset at being laughed at than people are at being beheaded. Sarcasm and absurdity are an existential terror to ideological veins that live off of being taken seriously, and religions are no exception.

[Bohandas]

I think the solution may be to laugh at them

We tried that in Europe, people got beheaded

You know what the fucked up part is though? They're way more upset at being laughed at than people are at being beheaded. Sarcasm and absurdity are an existential terror to ideological veins that live off of being taken seriously, and religions are no exception.

That's the idea exactly.

[Adragis]

 I'd think saying something like 'fnyar fnyar we know exactly how 2 defeat these christian scumbags the answer is laughter fnyar fnyar' is against the thread rules

[ggamer]

I'd think saying something like 'fnyar fnyar we know exactly how 2 defeat these christian scumbags the answer is laughter fnyar fnyar' is against the thread rules

I think the idea pertains more religious fundamentalists, i.e. the types that did the charlie hebdo shootings or that boycott the funerals of soldiers

at least, that's what I gathered. Bohandas is a grey area for me

[Adragis]

What's this about boycotting funerals?

[Flying Dice]

That's just the Westboro Baptist Church being terrible people as usual.

[Adragis]

And what was their 'reason'?

[Orange Wizard]

The soldiers fought for the US, homosexuality isn't a criminal offence in the US, ergo the soldiers are filthy homofags and are going to hell.

[Sheb]

I though the reason was "This is a hateful thing we can do to push people of the edge then sue them for sweet, sweet dolla."

[Adragis]

The soldiers fought for the US, homosexuality isn't a criminal offence in the US, ergo the soldiers are filthy homofags and are going to hell.

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