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You're right, relatively few adults these days convert because someone "sold" them on the religion and in my majority-catholic country the church doesn't even m
by fpig 9y ago
You're right, relatively few adults these days convert because someone "sold" them on the religion and in my majority-catholic country the church doesn't even make any serious attempt to do this or tell their followers to do this.
But christianity and islam are still the biggest MLM schemes in the world, however they work slightly differently.
Instead of being incentivized to recruit people around you, you are incentivized to create your own recruits by having as many children as possible and it's absolutely expected that you will "recruit" them. Also they love proselytizing (religious education etc) in schools, even though they don't care about doing it to adults. They know children are softer targets, and if they don't convert them before they reach adulthood, they're way less likely to succeed.
Basically it's all about proselytizing to children instead of adults. Get them while they're young!
- simonh 9y agoI get that you don't like religion, but how is it a pyramid scheme where e.g. Humanism, political beliefs, a love of Country Music, or any one of a million other beliefs or preferences aren't? It seems to me to be an extraordinarily specific and weak claim.
- fpig 9y agoBecause the followers are supposed to make kids and recruit them into the church at the earliest possible age. They don't want it to be about preference, they want to "lock them in" before they start thinking for themselves. This is literally a part of the catholic religion, you're expected to try to have children and expected to recruit them. It is not a part of any of your examples.
- simonh 9y agoTeaching children your culture is a pyramid selling scheme? Got it.
- AstralStorm 9y agoReligion is not the same as culture, and definitely is not the entirety of it. Nor should be. Anabaptist out of Christian sects had the right idea in my opinion.
- gamechangr 9y agoLumping "Christianity and Islam" reminds me of the craziness that passes as intellectualism on hacker news. "Mother Theresa and Hitler" believe in concentrations camps...come on? Maybe one more than the other? At the very minimum, you should take a world religion class if you want to be taken seriously???
- fpig 9y agoI don't need to take a "world religion class" to know how incredibly retarded the religion I grew up in is. And your post is for sure a shining example of "intellectualism".
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- gamechangr 9y agoYou grew up in both? Or just like grouping two beliefs with about half the worlds population together? Google says there are 2.2 Billion practicing Christians and 1.8 Billion practicing Islam. How many Billion people are you referring to when you use the word "retarded"?
- fpig 9y agoI group them together as the biggest MLM schemes in the world which sounds pretty much correct according to your own numbers They are grouped together by size and by the fact they both prey on children as their main recruitment targets Do you think "christanity and islam" should never be together in a sentence just because they differ in some aspects that are irrelevant to this conversation?
- gamechangr 9y ago"to know how incredibly retarded" Who were you referencing that's incredibly retarded?