(April 19, 2016 at 9:11 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: It's a moot point. We're too pluralistic. Any leader who appealed to Baptists wouldn't appeal to Presbyterians, etc etc etc.
There are people who fight over everything here, forming factions over the smallest details of a fucking comic book movie, you expect everyone or even a significant majority to agree on this leader? It's an implausible hypothetical.
It's an interesting perspective to me, because I am awaiting the Mahdi (the promised one who will bring unity and peace and justice to the world). Is it worth fighting the majority of humanity, majority of your country,etc, if this happens?
I understand intellectually disputing, but, what I'm talking about, is would you support trying to assassinate him and if that fails to fight his followers and not allow even if the majority of the world was about around 80% in following him? If suppose 75% of US all wanted to support him. What would you do?