This is a great historical thread that you've consolidated. I think I would agree with your speculative thesis at the end. The trend seems to dovetail with the trends in Pinker's Why Violence Has Declined. Death, and the concept of a brutal afterlife, is a violent thought.
This is a great historical thread that you've consolidated. I think I would agree with your speculative thesis at the end. The trend seems to dovetail with the trends in Pinker's Why Violence Has Declined. Death, and the concept of a brutal afterlife, is a violent thought.
1. Can American Religion be posturing rather than believing
2. Can communism or the capitalist counterparts be the new religions of China, Russia, and Czechia?