Is everything falling apart?

Re:Is everything falling apart? by dukeofdoom on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:27PM (#31211779)

Organized religion helped to defeat Communism, and tempered dictatorial control of many despots in the middle east. So your statement is far removed from reality.

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by underlying1941 on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:12PM (#31212746)

Seems to me it would be more accurate to say that dictatorial despots helped temper organized religion.

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by dukeofdoom on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:33PM (#31213128)

This only works to your benefit if the despot is on your side. Even if you are in the inner circle, despots tend to be very temperamental and murder their own supporters on whims of insecurity. So be careful what you wish for.

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by ElectricalUnion on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:22PM (#31212136)

> Organized religion helped to defeat Communism

So it literally did nothing, because Communism doesn't exist in real life?

> tempered dictatorial control of many despots in the middle east

[citation needed]

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by dukeofdoom on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:34PM (#31212861)

Organized Religion is literally the only organized opposition left under dictatorial rule. Even tyrants have a hard time going around murdering clerics. But you go ahead and believe what you want.

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by 93po on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:59PM (#31211979)

> Organized religion helped to defeat Communism

Looks like this is helping the argument that religion is a net negative

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by nradov on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:57PM (#31213229)

How so?

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by 93po on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:30AM (#31248056)

I'm a communist sympathizer

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by throwawaygh on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:11PM (#31212437)

> Organized religion helped to defeat Communism

The cold war propaganda was ratcheted down some time after Gen X; to a super-majority of under-30s, even conservative ones, this probably sounds more like a knave's laugh line than a sincerely held belief.

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by dukeofdoom on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:32PM (#31212852)

If that's the case, they have no clue what they're talking about. The Pope literally helped to organize and support the main opposition Solidarity movement. With many churches across the world actively working to end it.

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