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@toast the spread of Christianity was probably more attributed to you going to heaven than your enemies going to hell, although those are obviously linked. Life sucked and pagan religions didn't offer the comfort of "well you get a second life where things don't suck"
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@Moon @toast assurance of personal salvation is nice, but the incentive for conversion, feel, is rather the fear of others you care about being punished forever. compassion-fuelled
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@Moon there are no prominently tolerant ideologies, because every ideology that is is less effective at competingthis is because getting more members is easier when you make them feel strong emotions (and anger and hatred are rather strong), and tolerance doesn't really do thatkind of the same way christianity became rather prominent because it said all the people you didn't like will go to the bad place
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The paradox of tolerance teaches us that communists should not have the freedom to promote communism as communism is an intolerant ideology that denies freedom of speech.