Yeah, but they will probably never outwardly say they are abandoning Islam itself. It's a belief system and culture at this point. Nobody belives in Rah however Egypt won't just go "Nah we aren't in the land of Pharaohs anymore". It's too much ingrained into its image.
For most of Islamic Egyptian history they actively repudiated their pagan history, and now they are actively promoting it under the secularizing government. So no, they did at one point.
Brother, it’s not the mainline sects that are growing there…
So, are they Protestant in name and semi-doctrine only? That makes sense I guess.
I don't know much about Modern Egyptian politics so I'll take your word for now. I'll wait until this "secularizing" government becomes more cemented or goes the way of the Shah of Iran.
Other religions can grow too.
I click on this link only to then get recommended this video by the same guy:
What would happened if the US government came out fully in favour of African repatriation to Liberia/Africa/Haiti? Would that have prevented the civil war or would southerner planters still sperg out over not having free labour? Would the average Southerner support it? This path would obviously be wayyyyy too controversial for Victoria 3 but it is in the HPM mod for Vic2 if the US has a fascist government.
It actually already has; Charismatic Catholicism is increasingly popular in Brazil, largely as a reaction to the increasing urban growth of Pentecostals. LatAM Bishops still tend to be asleep at the wheel when it comes to their flocks but there are popular revival movements in Catholicism nowadays in the same way that medieval monasteries were the ones keeping popular faith alive for centuries.
ISIS had a Caliphate less than a decade ago and the Taliban seized Afghanistan three years ago, the Islamic world goes through this cycle of alleged secularization and fundamentalist revival constantly and secularization always loses.
No? But I understand now that you don't know what mainline is.
There still would have been massive sectional tensions and honestly I think a conflict would have been inevitable as the US continued to scale up. Slavery itself was just an avenue of power politics; New English industry was also heavily reliant on cheap cotton and the south being an easy market for industrial imports, and even had slavery been gradually and peacefully phased out and most of the former slaves set up in Liberia or Haiti the south would still clash with the northeast over import duties and tariffs, and the northeast would continue to push for the money raised by those to be spent almost entirely on building better internal improvements with the growing northwest industry to the exclusion of the south. These economic debates weren't isolated from political consequences either; Nullification was employed by both the New England states in the Hartford Convention and South Carolina in the Nullification crisis to protest economic policies that they felt completely ignored their wellbeing, and even if all the black slaves were replaced with poor whites the actual economic incentive structure would still encourage one section of the country to try to exclude the other economically and politically. It's important to remember that disparity in economic power didn't stop the south from trying to leave historically either; the Confederates genuinely believed they had a legal right to secede, and genuinely believed they would be able to peacefully (and did for half a year, which doesn't really have any comparison elsewhere).
I loved his slavery video.
I have always found economic arguments against slavery to be more cogent than moral ones, in part because it is more honest, and in part because it makes libtards seethe even when you are substantively agreeing that slavery is bad.
Woah woah woah, they do buy shit, and buy shit like crazy. They're just using other people's money to do it with.
Before the rise of the Republican Party the northern wing of the broadly pro-business Whigs were some of the biggest opponents of slavery in the USA.
I don’t. The good introduction to this is Fogel and Engermann, Time on the Cross.
Man, sounds like a ripe opportunity for a man of the people to get elected on the basis of the Senate being filled with a bunch of out-of-touch cunts...
