Religion Wars

[i_love_burritos]

The map the OP posted isn't that accurate, now what with France.

 

 

 

Should be as blue as the [bleep]ing sky...

[Da_Latios]

Well, I'm an atheist, formerly Christian. I guess I could just join the largest religion at the time :P which is now Roman Catholic.

 

Or what indy500fan said.

[Wisp]

 

Either way, I imagine in America, if this ever were to happen, Christians who are the majority here, would be the ruling class, and would oppress all minority religions (plus atheism). I don't think it would be just like a Christian kills all other religions on sight, but all others are second class citizens or are banned from practicing their religion. Anyways, I'd use guerrilla warfare to fight the religious state.

 

Thing is, Christianity has so many denominations that I doubt any would be able to get enough of a majority for that to happen. If that could have happened it would have, I think :lol:

 

Just means that it may be Christians fighting Christians and them being too busy to fight back against other faiths :lol:

 

Though I can try to take out WBC early on...

 

While there are lots of variations in Christianity, you never know what could happen. I imagine a similar situation would happen in the middle east, though there isn't as much religious variety there as here, and violence between the sects of islam would increase greatly

 

 

 

I imagine with the right leader, and world situations America could become a religious state. It would require a zealous member to come to a position of power, and then have some huge threat to the country. Let's say a group of muslim extremists gained power, and gained control of several "threat" countries, an American leader could use that threat as a reason to establish a religious state gradually.

 

 

 

Though, now that I think of it more, North America would be the safest area in a war like this. It's far enough from eurasia/africa that any large scale military assault from abroad would be difficult to impossible, and the latin american countries share similar religion demographics to the US and Canada.

 

 

 

In the Us, around 78% of americans are christians in some form, 16% are atheists or agnostics, and the rest are "other". Here's what I think would happen. There would be a three or two way civil war. Protestants (50% of US) would be fighting against Roman catholics (25%ish) unless they could settle their differences. The non-believers would be fighting against them all. In the middle east, I think the sunni's would overpower the shi'a and all other smaller sects, and would then wage war with Israel, which would probably fall due to the fact that they would be hugely outnumbered.

 

 

 

In asia, buddhists and confucianists/ "chinese traditionals" would be engaged in a civil war, while the hindus would be combating and spreading, due to the fact that their population is rather dense, and there is not very much religious variety. They might overtake the chinese, because hindus outnumber all but the non-religious, muslims, and christians.

 

 

 

Those are my predictions

[Giordano]

wage war with Israel, which would probably fall due to the fact that they would be hugely outnumbered.

 

wat

 

 

 

I'll move to Spain and join within the Catholic crowd. Or learn Italian and go to it's capital. :lol:

[Wisp]

Either way, I imagine in America, if this ever were to happen, Christians who are the majority here, would be the ruling class, and would oppress all minority religions (plus atheism). I don't think it would be just like a Christian kills all other religions on sight, but all others are second class citizens or are banned from practicing their religion. Anyways, I'd use guerrilla warfare to fight the religious state.

 

You must have missed that whole Crusades thing.

 

Then there's the whole 1000 years ago thing. Regardless of what religion caused it, that was a long time ago. I didn't specifiy this in my post, but I meant people would be forced to convert to christianity, and if they didn't they would be executed or imprisoned. The new converts would be treated like 2nd class citizens however, in all likelihood.

[Skully]

I'd join either the Agnostics or the Roman Catholics, as they are the highest populations who are the most technically advanced.

[indy500fan]

Well, yeah. I guess you're right. But I also doubt that the U.S.A. would ever become a religious nation. After all, we were founded to be a nation of religious freedom.

 

 

 

Most of the people who proclaim religious freedom in the US really mean "freedom to follow my religion, and screw all the others".

[Dizzle229]

Well, yeah. I guess you're right. But I also doubt that the U.S.A. would ever become a religious nation. After all, we were founded to be a nation of religious freedom.

 

 

 

Most of the people who proclaim religious freedom in the US really mean "freedom to follow my religion, and screw all the others".

 

 

 

And you base this on...?

[Nenga]

Well, yeah. I guess you're right. But I also doubt that the U.S.A. would ever become a religious nation. After all, we were founded to be a nation of religious freedom.

 

 

 

Most of the people who proclaim religious freedom in the US really mean "freedom to follow my religion, and screw all the others".

 

 

 

And you base this on...?

 

How people in the U.S. act (like total [bleep]wads)

[Plugpoint]

Would stay atheist and just laugh at all the idiots fighting. Despite a lot of religions preaching love etc.

[Skull]

Well, yeah. I guess you're right. But I also doubt that the U.S.A. would ever become a religious nation. After all, we were founded to be a nation of religious freedom.

 

 

 

Most of the people who proclaim religious freedom in the US really mean "freedom to follow my religion, and screw all the others".

 

 

 

And you base this on...?

 

Off Topic: I had a dream where the squirrell in your siggy killed me with that yo-yo.

 

 

 

On Topic: Well, I don't believe we've ever had a non-Christian president... but I've been wron before.

 

A lot of them were protestant I believe.

[22pepsi22]

Well, yeah. I guess you're right. But I also doubt that the U.S.A. would ever become a religious nation. After all, we were founded to be a nation of religious freedom.

 

 

 

Most of the people who proclaim religious freedom in the US really mean "freedom to follow my religion, and screw all the others".

 

 

 

And you base this on...?

 

Off Topic: I had a dream where the squirrell in your siggy killed me with that yo-yo.

 

 

 

On Topic: Well, I don't believe we've ever had a non-Christian president... but I've been wron before.

 

 

 

A lot of them were protestant I believe.

 

 

 

I think some of the founding fathers were Diests. Most notably Jefferson.

[Skull]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pr ... ted_States

 

 

 

Click on a name and scroll down a bit. Their religion is listed at the bottom of the box on the right.

[Lenin64]

Well, yeah. I guess you're right. But I also doubt that the U.S.A. would ever become a religious nation. After all, we were founded to be a nation of religious freedom.

 

 

 

Most of the people who proclaim religious freedom in the US really mean "freedom to follow my religion, and screw all the others".

 

 

 

And you base this on...?

 

Off Topic: I had a dream where the squirrell in your siggy killed me with that yo-yo.

 

 

 

On Topic: Well, I don't believe we've ever had a non-Christian president... but I've been wron before.

 

A lot of them were protestant I believe.

 

We had a Jew once, didn't we? Wait, what was Kennedy? Catholic?

[Johannas]

There's alot of terrorism attached to Muslims, so they seem to have the edge when it comes to attacking.

 

 

 

...Me though - i'm sticking to Jedi.

 

 

 

Lightsabers against Bibles? I'll let you decide.

 

 

 

Jedi's are few and far between but with their awesome jedi mind tricks i think they could trick the world's population into colonizing into the middle of the desert. Non violence, just a lifetime of suffering ahead.

 

 

 

After all i think we're gonna need as many people as possible when the Martians attack so it would be no good if the Jedi's killed everybody

 

 

 

[22pepsi22]

There's alot of terrorism attached to Muslims, so they seem to have the edge when it comes to attacking.

 

 

 

...Me though - i'm sticking to Jedi.

 

 

 

Lightsabers against Bibles? I'll let you decide.

 

 

 

Jedi's are few and far between but with their awesome jedi mind tricks i think they could trick the world's population into colonizing into the middle of the desert. Non violence, just a lifetime of suffering ahead.

 

 

 

After all i think we're gonna need as many people as possible when the Martians attack so it would be no good if the Jedi's killed everybody

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yodeling kills martians. All it takes is one man with a record of Franzl Lang and a megaphone.

 

 

 

And, as for me, I'd. Well. Move to the Vatican City. Lol. ;)

[Johannas]

 

 

 

And, as for me, I'd. Well. Move to the Vatican City. Lol. ;)

 

 

 

Surely that would be one of the first targets for every religion to attack?

[Alg]

 

 

 

And, as for me, I'd. Well. Move to the Vatican City. Lol. ;)

 

 

 

Surely that would be one of the first targets for every religion to attack?

 

And so chances are, heavily defended. Safe if you're Catholic, not so much otherwise.

[22pepsi22]

^ What he said. Also:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, as for me, I'd. Well. Move to the Vatican City. Lol. ;)

 

 

 

Surely that would be one of the first targets for every religion to attack?

 

 

 

 

 

The only immediate threat I see would be Africa across the Mediterranean. Of course this is assuming that various sects of Christianity aren't fighting with each other.

 

 

 

At least I would be among friends if worse came to worse. :

[Johannas]

 

 

 

And, as for me, I'd. Well. Move to the Vatican City. Lol. ;)

 

 

 

Surely that would be one of the first targets for every religion to attack?

 

And so chances are, heavily defended. Safe if you're Catholic, not so much otherwise.

 

 

 

There's not much to defend though, i'm sure it's only about 1 mile in diameter.

[Dizzle229]

Yodeling kills martians. All it takes is one man with a record of Franzl Lang and a megaphone.

 

 

 

 

[Seraphi]

Fight for the Atheists.

 

While all the religious people are praying, we are developing space lasers and earthquake generators.

 

Or, we just attack during a holy hour of some kind.

[Giordano]

 

 

 

And, as for me, I'd. Well. Move to the Vatican City. Lol. ;)

 

 

 

Surely that would be one of the first targets for every religion to attack?

 

And so chances are, heavily defended. Safe if you're Catholic, not so much otherwise.

 

 

 

There's not much to defend though, i'm sure it's only about 1 mile in diameter.

 

The Vatican isn't much bigger than a mile, but Rome certainly is.

 

 

 

Kingjoe made me change my decision. Jedi all the way. :thumbsup:

[Latinoking]

Going off the religions that the OP has in his map.

 

 

 

I'll go with these guys. The Knights Templar. A group that actually has knowledge in combat and is very smart while being secretive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just won't do the weird crap they did, if then even do them.

[aquariusman]

I'd head immediately to the Southern tip of South America and claim to be Catholic. Since it is a large region of one dominating religion, no worries about conflicts within the continent (except in Brazil, which wouldn't matter since the indiginous peoples are isolated form the rest of the world pretty much). So basically, if South America became a target, the likely country to be destroyed first by an ICBM would be Brazil I'd say, or in and around the Northern regions of South America. The Souther South America is largely made up of weak economic powers (I think), so not a high-priority target. Also, if anyhting goes wrong, just hop on a boat and head to wherever I can.