I think it's slightly unbelievable to us who grew up in secular societies where being agnostic/atheistic/non-practing-believer is fairly common and not so out of the ordinary. Then we start hearing about the experiences in christian-nationalistic countries and how it is growing up there, and it's just very different from what you expect from a modern country.
I'm guessing Aeolun might be from one of those places/countries/states :)
I’ve never been Christian, but I have lived in the US my entire life, so I was always at least peripherally aware of “Christian culture”. I knew about Christian Rock and Christian movies, Christian video games, those weird Christian TV channels, etc. There has always been a distinct “Christian media” that is separate from the regular secular media.
For nearly my entire life, I had assumed that it was like this everywhere in the world, until I spent two weeks in the UK in 2022, when the topic of “Super Noah’s Ark 3D” came up (I believe because of a Steam sale).
The people I was with were extremely confused by the idea that there is a version of Wolfenstein 3D themed around Noah going around the ark firing food at goats, and I said “oh you know, it’s part of that whole Christian media culture”.
They had no idea what I was talking about, so I had to explain the weird dual media economy that exists in the US.
Kind of eye opening, I guess one of those stereotypical American things of assuming “everything is the US”.
I think it's slightly unbelievable to us who grew up in secular societies where being agnostic/atheistic/non-practing-believer is fairly common and not so out of the ordinary. Then we start hearing about the experiences in christian-nationalistic countries and how it is growing up there, and it's just very different from what you expect from a modern country.
I'm guessing Aeolun might be from one of those places/countries/states :)
I’ve never been Christian, but I have lived in the US my entire life, so I was always at least peripherally aware of “Christian culture”. I knew about Christian Rock and Christian movies, Christian video games, those weird Christian TV channels, etc. There has always been a distinct “Christian media” that is separate from the regular secular media.
For nearly my entire life, I had assumed that it was like this everywhere in the world, until I spent two weeks in the UK in 2022, when the topic of “Super Noah’s Ark 3D” came up (I believe because of a Steam sale).
The people I was with were extremely confused by the idea that there is a version of Wolfenstein 3D themed around Noah going around the ark firing food at goats, and I said “oh you know, it’s part of that whole Christian media culture”.
They had no idea what I was talking about, so I had to explain the weird dual media economy that exists in the US.
Kind of eye opening, I guess one of those stereotypical American things of assuming “everything is the US”.