Explanation: The US during the Cold War leaned into Christianity as a means of differentiating ourselves from the ‘godless commies’. The Soviet Union supported state atheism as a means of stamping out superstition. After the Cold War ended, the trends reversed, with atheism surging in the US, and Christianity seeing a revival in Russia.
Maybe Trump is going to speed up the population’s atheism arc. Restrictive religion-inspired laws can have that effect - see Spain after Franco. Though Trump himself doesn’t do a good job at even pretending that he cares about religion.
Having a religion in a society makes them easier to control. Lot of death comes with it though.
Not always. In East Germany the (protestant) churches were some of the few places where organised resistance against the dictatorship was possible.
Okay, but 99.9% of the time…
Having a religion in a society makes them easier to control.
That’s literally what religion was invented for.
Lot of death comes with it though.
Yeah, but that’s mainly hundreds of millions of SOCIAL murders of POOR people, which is the equivalent of less than one murder of a Fortune 500 CEO or state level or above politician. Just the cost of doing business in capitalism and theocratic fascism.
I don’t believe the cold war ever really ended, russia just got new managment and we all calmed down a bit. we are still doing the whole nuclear dick measuring thing and we are almost certainly still doing a good bit of spying. we still base a lot of decisions on the possibility of inciting nuclear war. we even have more countries doing it now. so, it never ended.
