[War_ooc] Countries, timeline stuff, etc.

[John Penta]

That sounds uncomfortably like Obama's guns and religion comment from the
campaign trail, but anyway.

Kiiiind of. "Explain America!" is the easy reply to anyone who says
religious belief must decline with improved wealth, but you're also seeing
it in Eastern Europe and Russia. Admittedly, that's happening after
Communism, but in those areas religious belief is coming back with force.

I did not say that #1 was a dramatic swing. It's the beginning of what would
take years to really change.

It's a pendulum swing. Anyone who says the world will become boomingly
religious in 4 years is missing something. It takes longer.

But to say that the recession, one of as deep a depth and long in length as
posited (stretching it to 2010 makes it last fairly long, if I recall my
economic history) might not lead people towards religion and traditionalism,
even in normally secularist areas (perhaps as a reaction to their parents'
secularism)? I don't think you can be so sure.

The fact is, so far as I understand it, that nobody really looked at this
the last time economic conditions were this bad this long (the 1930s), so we
have no idea beyond anecdote.

John
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Daniel Sanderson <
dantheman2210 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>   But haven't we always seen this amongst the groups you've mentioned? My
> uncle was recently in Africa, and when he came back we had a night for him
> to show us all his photos, and this of course came up, as there were
> shrines, churches, pictures and symbols everywhere. I would have thought it
> has always been the case that those who live a hard life depend a lot more
> on religion to help them, I guess, see the bright side of life (no Monty
> Python jokes intended).
> This isn't so much my view on inserting this into the game, more just a
> contribution to argument :D
>
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://esteroic.com/pipermail/war_ooc_esteroic.com/attachments/20090621/88d64ba0/attachment.html