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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by PeterHolzwarth on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:53AM (#45298663)
I don't think that is a fruitful line of reasoning, given that the vast majority of the world is not Catholic/Orthodox/Protestant! You should consider digging deeper for underlying causes that go beyond localized religions.

Put another way - that would seem to be an effect, not a cause.

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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by fidotron on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:46AM (#45300502)
> Put another way - that would seem to be an effect, not a cause.

Protestantism does seem to become the preferred variant of Christianity in areas of bottom-up power systems, such as the UK (at least wrt Magna Carta), which does make perfect sense given the Vatican being the ultimate in top-down thinking.

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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by svieira on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:22AM (#45302011)
Magna Carta (1200s) was issued 300 years before England defected from Catholicism (1500s), so I think we may be looking at the wrong thing as "the cause" here.
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Re:AI tools are making the world look weird by fidotron on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:39AM (#45302180)
No, that's my point.

Generally speaking places that view things in a bottom up way became Protestant. The others stayed Catholic.

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