(March 24, 2015 at 10:45 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I don't know, I think there might be bigger strains of secularism in the Middle East than you'd think and things also can change incredibly fast. It's just the secularism is pushed underground by the extremists who run many of the countries. An example of how fast things can change when Queen Elizabeth became Queen most Britians believed that God preordained her to be Queen. Today most Britians don't believe in God. That's in the lifetime of one human being. So some things can change shockingly fast. Also during the cold war a number of these places have had communist parties, so Atheism has definitely been there before in one way or another. It's hard to put a number on it in terms of years, but I wouldn't be surprised if by the time some of us were old things were a lot different in the middle east.
I agree! I think a lot of us will see significant changes in parts of the middle-east in our lifetimes. I honestly think Iran will be the first one to see change due to the rising secularism among people my age. Anyone remember the Green Movement from 2009? I think that was just the tip of the coming iceberg.
