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    [–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

    The Mennonites, as Christians, feel an obligation to love everyone which means that they tolerate anyone who isn't disruptive. I am not Christian and I have been to many Mennonite churches in America and I always feel welcome.

    I live in El Paso and have been there twice, once by driving and once by bus + car rental. Getting there is no problem.

    The Mennonites have good relations with the Mexican government, and the current president is quite tolerant, so I don't expect problems there anytime soon.

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      [–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

      While America is still tolerable, the rest of the Anglosphere is intolerable yet people are not leaving. Most people are just sheep and most of the action-oriented conservatives would rather fight and die than leave. So I don't expect a huge wave of immigration.

      But those few of us interested in the area did debate whether publicize the area after the last Old Testament reading. Right now this place is seriously under the radar, so it would have to publicized for anyone to even find it.

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        [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

        Rome was already in terminal decline by the time of Jesus, a multicultural mess. The Old Testament had already developed a system to allow a religion to survive in a multicultural empire. Christianity made this system compatible with Greek and Roman culture. I think Christianity saved the eastern half of the Roman Empire as the Byzantine Empire, and that without Christianity, all of Rome would have simply collapsed.

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          [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

          All empires disintegrate (with the possible exception of China). The cause is endlessly debated but I think multiculturalism plays a big role. Also the population gets spoiled and loses the founding religion and goes into genetic decline from both lack of selection pressure and mixing with inferior genes. Also see The Fate of Empires.

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            [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

            The extremes are no good. No mixing means no adding new good genes. Too much mixing means that the gene pool gets overwhelmed. Limited mixing (limited immigration) means adding genes slowly and letting the good ones be selected for.