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For some of my more unhinged takes. There will be more politics slop. | Oshi marks: 🦠💻 Alt of Jaice @JaiceYgo86184

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Jaice 🦠💻@JaiceYgo86184·
TeleDAD format is actually pretty fun when you play the tier 0 deck. It's kind of annoying that ROTA is at 3 but the only way to get 2 more copies is crafting
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@rightwingnutrs Claiming Tibetan monks also have bodily ressurections is crazy. That's literally the opposite of Buddhism
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@23wjohnston @TartanLutheran Affilitation does not mean that they hold true to orthodox doctrine. The cultural aspects of Roman Catholicism have a strong hold on the country but not the moiral teachings
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Warren@23wjohnston·
There is a strong correlation in Europe between the historical heartlands of Protestantism (where it began and spread most successfully) and today’s highest rates of atheism, irreligion, or religious “nones.” This pattern holds across multiple surveys and studies, though it is not perfect causation—other factors like economic development, welfare states, and historical events (e.g., communism in some areas) also play roles. Globally the link weakens because East Asia (e.g., China, Japan) has high irreligion for unrelated reasons. Where Protestantism Began and Spread Protestantism originated in Germany (Wittenberg, 1517, with Martin Luther’s 95 Theses) and rapidly spread across Northern and Northwestern Europe: • Lutheran core: Northern Germany, Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland), and parts of the Baltic (e.g., Estonia, Latvia). • Calvinist/Reformed: Netherlands, Switzerland, Scotland. • Anglican: England/UK. • It was weaker or suppressed in Southern and Eastern Europe (Catholic or Orthodox strongholds). Current Atheism/Irreligion Rates Recent data (2023–2025 surveys, including World Population Review, Gallup International, Pew, and national censuses) show the highest European irreligion rates cluster exactly in those historical Protestant regions: • Sweden: ~76% non-religious / high atheist identification. • Denmark: ~70%. • Norway: ~70%. • Estonia: ~70% (historically Lutheran). • Netherlands: High (often 50–70% unaffiliated depending on metric). • UK: ~72% non-religious / low church affiliation. • Germany: ~46–66% non-denominational/irreligious (higher in formerly Protestant northern and eastern regions). • Czech Republic: ~75% (an outlier—historically mixed/Hussite but heavily secularized; still fits broader Northern/Central pattern). By contrast, historically Catholic countries generally show lower irreligion: • Poland: Much lower non-religious rates (~17% among young adults). • Italy, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, etc.: Higher Christian identification and lower “nones” than the Protestant north, though declining everywhere. Pew Research and other studies consistently find Western/Northern Europe (Protestant heritage) far more secular than Southern or Eastern Europe, with “nones” often outnumbering practicing Christians. North-western Protestant EU countries are described as the most secularized overall. Why the Correlation? • Historical evidence: Right after the Reformation (1517 onward), Protestant regions in Germany saw a sharp shift of resources (schools, buildings, human capital) away from the Church toward secular uses—faster than in Catholic areas. This “secularization of the political economy” happened immediately and disproportionately in Protestant territories. • Long-term patterns: Protestant emphasis on individual Bible reading, personal faith, and questioning authority may have inadvertently accelerated skepticism and pluralism over centuries. Multiple studies note Protestant countries secularize faster than Catholic ones. • Data patterns: In Europe-wide comparisons, Protestant-heritage areas lead in atheism/non-religion; Catholic strongholds retain higher affiliation. Eastern Orthodox areas are more religious than the Protestant northwest but less so than some Catholic pockets. Exceptions and caveats: • France (Catholic heritage) is quite secular due to its own revolutionary/laïcité history. • Communist legacies boosted atheism in places like Czechia and Estonia. • The U.S. (Protestant roots) remains more religious than Europe, showing culture and institutions matter too. The map of where Protestantism began and flourished in the 16th century closely matches today’s map of Europe’s most atheist/least religious regions. This is one of the clearest large-scale patterns in the sociology of religion. The USA is 250 years old, and already showing signs of the same fate.
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TheScottishLutheran@TartanLutheran·
The problem with “non-denominational” is that it only tells you style and attitude. It doesn’t give you substance or theology. Nevertheless, it is an influential movement that is devouring other churches with a materialistic consumerism. Once they target your church, they will devour your sheep. Catechize my friends. Teach, teach, teach! That is the best defense for your people.
Mmtoss 👑@Mmtoss1

Magisterial Protestants were at least 48% of all American Protestants in the 70s. Now 24%. I’m beginning to think @redeemed_zoomer is right, smh. America is not Baptist, America is not non-denominational, America is not Papist, America is Magisterial Protestant.

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SurfingPikachu@SurfingPikachu1·
@Spartan_Eden BTW Proctor and Kiwifarms are bad actors and the accusations here are tenous
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Eden Prime@Spartan_Eden·
Even funnier.
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Proctor Zakharov@ProctorZ

So, let's talk about the Mimi Yanagi situation again. To briefly recap, Mimi was a VTuber who was arrested by the UK police for possessing doujins and other anime paraphernalia. They forced her to dox her real name on her social media accounts. As a result of this injustice, thousands of people leapt to her defence, calling the UK police incompetent fools for harassing a harmless woman possessing innocent material. At least, that was the narrative up until today. But thanks to the efforts of Kiwi Farms, this has been proven false. Mimi Yanagi is actually Jordan Williams, a biological male with a years-long history of openly embracing paedophilia online. Jordan, despite spending several thousand pounds of the taxpayer's money (he is on welfare because he refuses to get a job) on a VTuber model and commissions for it, has never actually streamed. This is certainly because if he were to stream, his identity as a man would be immediately revealed. However, Jordan's identity as a paedophile is much more relevant here. This is not a term I use lightly, because it is thrown around far too often. However, Jordan is extremely blatant about his vile predilections. Within hours of his announcement of arrest on Twitter, KF members had already found his Pixiv account. Here is where things get truly disturbing. For many years, Jordan followed various paedophile artists on Pixiv. This is not an allegation or a supposition; these paedophiles self-identified as paedophiles through their tags and content descriptions. Furthermore, the art they produced included highly realistic depictions of children and toddlers in sexual situations - including rape and bestiality. A major artist who Jordan loved and boosted repeatedly on Pixiv is BlueBorscht. Blue's artwork is unabashedly paedophilic. He draws children being raped and molested by adults, with his works featuring phrases like 'Child Rape Club' and '❤️Child Porn❤️' drawn on the bodies of the children being depicted in them. Another of his favourite artists is DENBAKO. A common tag for Den's artwork is 'pedo', which they phonetically spell using hiragana, just so there can be absolutely no misunderstandings or translation errors. Denbako draws kindergarteners being raped and molested. This has, without any exaggeration, been some of the most vile shit I have unwillingly been exposed to on the internet. Investigating it was so sickening that even hardened internet sleuths were finding it difficult to continue. The most damning part of all of this is that it was all out in the open. This did not require an intense effort to discover. Uncovering Jordan's history of paedophilia took a few google searches. Uncovering his identity as a man took only a little more effort. In my initial post about this story, I loudly warned people not to blindly support Jordan Williams, due to the very strong likelihood they were a real paedophile. The signs were right there in the initial post, and even a tiny amount of digging confirms them beyond all possible doubt. Every single person who has blindly defended Jordan Williams must now accept that they put time, effort and energy into supporting someone who spent a large portion of his daily energies masturbating to images of toddlers and pre-schoolers being raped. They could have very easily escaped this situation. It took less than four days for these revelations to be consolidated on KF and made public for easy consumption. Even prior to that, some people were already voicing rational scepticism and pleading with others to exercise restraint. But no, the wagons were circled and people were much happier to just blame the police for persecuting an obviously innocent cute uwu smol bean than contemplate any alternative. Huge accounts unthinkingly parroted this story. Some pillars of the anti-censorship community bought into it and spent days arguing in Jordan's defence. None of them bothered or cared to do even the most basic amount of research to see if Jordan was someone worth tying their reputations to. Now anyone with an even slightly pro-censorship platform has an endless orgy of evidence with which to declare the other side as reckless child-endangering seal-clappers. I am not entirely sure I disagree with this anymore. A link to Jordan's KF thread will be pinned in the header of The Virtual Asylum for the next week. Anyone who cares can go confirm for themselves that everything I have just stated is true. Anyone else who continues wilfully denying this man is a paedophile after this point will get no mercy from me. The woodchipper is hungry.

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King of The Galaxy
King of The Galaxy@KingTheGalaxy28·
Planning to take s huge bite of these today. Recommend me some to prioritise, preferably students I don't know from the main story already.
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@Spartan_Eden Apparently it was limited to 3 per account, but that obviously wouldn't stop just having multiple accounts
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