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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by SergeAx on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:24AM (#37723913)
Early life indoctrination is working and will keep working, especially with such an established institutions as world religions. Don't try to fool yourself.
Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by globular-toast on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:43AM (#37725876)
How do you explain the fall of religion in places like Europe? It's not like early life indoctrination has been outlawed or even generally accepted as being wrong.
Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by SergeAx on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:52AM (#37725955)
That's what I thought myself about after I posted the comment. Turns out it was a lack of faith in those whose job was to indoctrinate. Same happened in Soviet Union in 60s, and the very next generation became immune.
Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by standardUser on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:14PM (#37727392)
All the evidence points to the opposite. If you have some evidence or a series of logical statements, I will listen. But I'm not going to take your word for it when it directly contradicts all evidence.
Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by SergeAx on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:40PM (#37727754)
Maybe you then care to bring your evidence?
Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by standardUser on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:10PM (#37728047)
A few recent surveys that show a significant, increasing and undeniable reduction in religiosity in the United States, particularly among the young people you claim are being successfully indoctrinated...

"In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace" https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decli...

"Religion and Congregations in a Time of Social and Political Upheaval" https://www.prri.org/research/religion-and-congregations-in-...

"U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time" https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-...

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by SergeAx on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:13PM (#37729449)
Those are not proofs of indoctrination infeasibility, just that in US religious indoctrination isn't working anymore. I believe it is mostly because schools and parents became more secular and unreligious. Same happened with ideological indoctrination in USSR 1980s.

On the other hand, left liberal indoctrination works fine in US right now, as we can see. Same with imperial indoctrination in today's Russia.

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by polski-g on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:07PM (#37731383)
That is a decline in those specific religions, not in religiosity.

If you look at all religions ("a belief in something absent evidence"), religiosity hasn't moved an inch.