[War_ooc] Countries, timeline stuff, etc.

[lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca]

I'd disagree. If you look at credit cycle theory and Austrian Business  
Cycle Theory, they would have seemed to predicted this, so maybe you  
could extrapolate spiritual behaviour during these periods. As well,  
you could draw comparisons to the panic of 1837. Maybe take a look at  
religious response during the 1840s?

Mind you, there was that potato thing, and the subsequent nativist  
response... ;)

Quoting John Penta <john.penta at gmail.com>:

> 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
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