I didn’t realize this was up for debate. I was taught in the 90s that smallpox (and many other communicable diseases) came over with Columbus and other 15th century colonists, causing devastation among countless communities which had no immunity.
The word they used was decimated, but that is only reducing the population by 10%. Wikipedia quotes a source that said up to 90% of populations were wiped out.
It would make sense because the pursuit of square dancing in the 1940’s in the United States was part of Ford’s agenda to push out the influence of black jazz in schools.
Also, according to the Country Dance & Song Society, square dancing is only held together by layers of whitewashed black history. The Smithsonian goes further to say that Native American people also influenced the music.
But, to answer your question, Christian churches do create a community and have events where people hang out, pray, etc. As a child the church I was brought to had outreach events where we handed out food, protested, and we once helped clean up some weird factory building. It’s easier for an org like that to get people to come together. There is guilt for missing service and people constantly ask you to do this thing or that.
I’m not sure how it would be accomplished, but creating non-religious community centers would be a huge benefit.
The amount of repressed misogynistic hate porn out there tells me that there are many people that literally get off on forced female submission.
Also restricting legal access to what we currently refer to as legal porn is going to cause an explosion of sites that don’t care whether there are abused children on their site.
That could be the play though, to create this fetid atmosphere and say that’s why we can’t have privacy.
It’s like they see the coming aging population and are freaking out. My dudes, it will be okay.
Also because China is not experiencing a religious movement that rejects science.
Yeah, I guess I had gotten someone’s weird rant in my head.