Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by malloyd

That's one of the things that struck me as most nonsensical barring that killing of hundreds of millions option. Religions simply are not top down organizations, you aren't killing organized practice of them unless you start killing people at the level of leaders of individual congregations.

I'd also point out that pushing very hard to stamp out religion makes the local response even more nonsensical, and it's pretty stretched already. Mysterious supernatural forces are attempting to stamp out the true faith (and the right political ideology at the same time) using murderous extortion to compel obedience to commands they don't even explain. They must be benevolent time travelers! No. It's quite obvious they are evil demon lords or something equivalent, there is no way people are anything like this accepting.

They are not pushing hard, there are dozens of letters roughly every 2 months over the course of 3 decades. That is roughly 10,000 letters total, all highly specific and designed to target the key decision makers at pivotal times. The average person is rarely directly affected, rather indirectly affected through changes of policy many years later. If they pushed hard, threatening millions, they would get strong resistance, that is not the premise of the idea.