CronoDAS comments on The Problem Of Apostasy - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Raw_Power 19 July 2012 10:27AM

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Comment author: Raw_Power 19 July 2012 01:23:27PM 12 points [-]

Speaking in long term terms, what is the mechanism by which societies secularize themselves, and are there ways to trigger it? For instance, the Jews too have a very explicit, canonic policy of stoning proselytizing apostates to death. When did they stop doing that, and why?

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 July 2012 12:48:14AM 6 points [-]

In Europe, it took decades/centuries of religious wars.

As for the Jews, I think they stopped doing it because they were conquered.