AHC: Screw Christianity as much as possible with PODs after 1800

The OP was originally asking to weaken it to the point of near destruction, an actual end-goal of near destruction was specified. The post was edited when this was untenable. I posted very early after the thread went up.

Oh gosh how do you tell these things?

That's wild. I'm sorry.
 
Probably a worldwide Communist revolution would go towards weakening religion in general.
Interestingly enough, it is the post Communist states that are seeing some of the biggest religious resurgence rates in the world right now. I'm not sure that Communism actually ends up weakening religion in the long run when it falls apart due to its inherent contradictions.
 
A part of that would be screwing the Christian population of Luzon in favor of the Pagans in the 18th century famines but that is before the OP POD.
 
Interestingly enough, it is the post Communist states that are seeing some of the biggest religious resurgence rates in the world right now. I'm not sure that Communism actually ends up weakening religion in the long run when it falls apart due to its inherent contradictions.
It`s a sort of historical irony when non- or even anti-Marxists speak of communism falling apart "due to its inherent contradictions" ;-) I don`t think so-called communism has inherent contradictions, it has flaws.

Yes, there are resurgence rates. But that`s because official rates were really low, except for Poland maybe. There may be a sort of swing the opposite direction for a while, but I think what the red dictatorships have done to uproot and alienate their populations from archaic religious traditions still has massive consequences and it´s going to remain a legacy of secularisation.

Also, resurgence isn`t happening everywhere. East Germany is still vastly non-denominational and non-religious, for example.
 
Maybe having both Qing China and Ottoman Turkey "pull a Meiji" along with an Indian Empire formed after a successful Indian Mutiny combined with a Europe-spanning Communist superpower?
 
The OP was originally asking to weaken it to the point of near destruction, an actual end-goal of near destruction was specified. The post was edited when this was untenable. I posted very early after the thread went up.

No, it wasn't. You're making that up.
 
Interestingly enough, it is the post Communist states that are seeing some of the biggest religious resurgence rates in the world right now. I'm not sure that Communism actually ends up weakening religion in the long run when it falls apart due to its inherent contradictions.

Religious revivals from a lowpoint. I think Czechia has the highest rate of atheism in the world.
 
The biggest way to achieve reduction in modern Christianity starting from 1800 probably involves Africa. Relatively easy to avert significant European administration of the interior, in which case one could plausibly speculate some more success by Islam and a great deal more retention of African traditional religion. Given 21st century populations, that's a big difference.

Obviously communism is a good tool to this end, as well. Had China's atheism stuck, instead of the dramatic flowering of religion this century OTL, that's a lot of human beings with different spiritual lives.

Other than those.... South Korea? Quite a lot of Christians, seemingly quite contingent on geopolitics.
 
The OP was originally asking to weaken it to the point of near destruction, an actual end-goal of near destruction was specified. The post was edited when this was untenable. I posted very early after the thread went up.

The only edited posts in this thread are yours. And also the one you deleted.
 

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The OP was originally asking to weaken it to the point of near destruction, an actual end-goal of near destruction was specified. The post was edited when this was untenable. I posted very early after the thread went up.
There is NO evidence that the Opening Post was altered in any way.
 
Probably a worldwide Communist revolution would go towards weakening religion in general.

Regardless of the actual opponent of christianity, the best approach might be to paint christianity as the tool of a rich few to keep the rest of us down, by emphasizing a "heavenly reward" instead of a better life in the real world. And to portray religious leaders as rich scammers who don't really believe themselves, but just see religion as a way to make money without working hard, like everybody else. Btw there was long at least an element of truth in the latter, as some priests just "go through the motions" as to them it's just a job. Ehrman pointed out that seminaries teach the historical-critical approach to the bible, which dismisses much of the NT as mere invention, intended to "sell" jesus by making him "fulfill prophecy."
Considering that the historical-critical approach has been known and perhaps standard, since c 1900, it's a bit remarkable that anti-christian regimes haven't made it better known. Ehrman purports not to know why it has been withheld from the masses for so long. Regardless, showing how much of the NT is fiction could've gone a long way toward eroding christianity, severely, everywhere.
 
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