WE'RE ALL FUCKED

Actually, being part of an organized religion might actually help your chances of survival in that you're part of a group of people who at least have some nominal connection to each other and some organization structure that can fill the vacuum. I've never bought into the idea that the best way to deal with a Mad Max scenario was to have a bunker off in the wilderness with a year's supply of food and ammo. Those that will be better off are those that can group together (kind of like in Stephen King's The Stand.)

Of course, you don't necessarily need a religion for that; any kind of social or service organization might be able to accomplish the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

But still - religion doesn't exactly qualify as a group, does it? I'm sure not all Christians will flock together to one specific site to band together in the apocalypse. It would be kind of hilarious though, watching them wait for the rapture and it never happen. <3

Well, religion in general isn't a group, but individual congregations, faiths, etc. are groups that are accustomed to working together to achieve a common goal (or at least the best of them are.) Some of them have governing bodies that are elected democratically, and some spend their efforts administering to the needs of their community instead of telling everyone that they are going to hell. I think they'd all have a good shot of faring better than average.

Originally Posted by a lurker

Okay, so I was going to prop you because seriously fuck the anti-religion brigade, but then you started dissing isolationist post-apocalyptic strategies, and that's my MO. I plan on being the most powerful hobo in a shed in the woods in the Great Lakes area!

So since the prop and diss cancel each other out, I'll give you this for your trouble:

I appreciate that a lot, because the forum was down when my birthday rolled around this year (and it was a biggie too.)

But you don't need an apocalypse to be a good hobo.

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