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Great stuff. I appreciate the effort you're putting into applying rationalist methods to the questions at play. I hope your fellow rationalists are paying attention. I have a theological quibble however (which doesn't detract from your overall point) - the Catholic vs Protestant conflict wasn't over which God they pray to, but instead about who has authority over believers. It's more like the Sunni/Shia split in that sense - truly a struggle for political/secular power as expressed through religious leaders. And the Protestant message that you didn't need a massive ecclesiastical bureaucracy to manage your connection to God ultimately led to western values for individualism and scientific experimentation. But that's a whole other topic. 😊

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I think the antisemitism poll might not be accurate. It's an opt-in online poll.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/05/online-opt-in-polls-can-produce-misleading-results-especially-for-young-people-and-hispanic-adults/

There was another opt-in online poll showing that half of Israeli Jews supported biblical genocide with nonsensical cross tabs - 47% of all Israeli Jews, 30% of Labor supporters, more Masortim and Haredim than Datim supporting it - discussed here: https://archive.is/iJoEJ .

So in general be vary of online opt-in polls. The people just want to click yes yes yes on everything to get the gift card raffle at the end or whatever. You get nonsensical results so do not take them seriously.

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