@Max7758469453 Well Islam is in heavy decline, and with Christianity we see a deprecated cult. And yes, deprecated cults tend to be filled with more "conservative" types who are more "moderate" in their behavior. The same thing occurred in the USSR, and is occurring in China.
@Max7758469453 I don't know what causes the flare-ups of this cultic energy, but you see more culty types at the point of revolution, then once they win out, more "conservative" types take over, and eventually the cultic beliefs stop being enforced.
@Max7758469453 But with something like Islam, there's a problem in that a lot of the religious beliefs align with the default. For example, hating Jews and, by extension, the west. Well, those groups are foreigners - no cult required to get people to hate foreigners. That's default.
@Max7758469453 Islam and Nazism have this "problem" is separating the tempermentally "conservative" supporters from their cultic supporters. Because the NSDAP said a lot of stuff that fits with the default, so a more "conservative" type "my country over all" would be attracted to it.
@Max7758469453 Of course it's a tremendous strength for the movement - if you can get both the cultic types and the conservative types on the same boat. I think this happened in the USSR when the Nazis invaded - that invasion got more "conservative" Russians on board with defending the USSR.
@Max7758469453 I also think that the German invasion of the USSR was when the communist revolution in Russia was finished. Not that their changes ended then and there, but that was when the inevitable lurch toward more mundane considerations became inexorable and the cultic ideals faded.
@Max7758469453 One immediate effect it had was it refuted all kinds of weird mythologies that were floating around in the Red Army about the superior morale of a "revolutionary army". Nope, you're just a country, with an army, fighting other countries with armies. Also re-legalizing religion.
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