With Putin talking about the orthodox church being holy and using to justify some conservative bullshit, all I can remember was the bolsheviks going around the country proudly declaring that cities were now "officially godless" and redistributing the church's gold amongst the people and using it to pay for electrification projects.
Absolutely, i'm just talking in general here. I've unfortunately still run into young earth creationist types more than once, but it's a lot less common than, say, in America.
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Yeah, figures like that are usually off the charts for the US compared to other western nations.
Everyone in my family except my grandmother and siblings believe that shit
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Just denial, alienation, and psychosis.
It's not like they were raised on a Christian education or anything. They all went to public school and have college degrees. They just never found community outside of evangelical church and having that belief is a requirement for access to that support network.