Publically blow away the leader of a religion with a widespread and fanatical following

>Publically blow away the leader of a religion with a widespread and fanatical following
>Make him a martyr
>The entire religion ceases to exist immediately
This is the worst fuckup in the entirety of the show. We should have been setup for King's Landing to turn into the LA riots and possibly plunge the kingdoms immediately into a religious civil war, as a new leader rose up into the power vacuum in the order.

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But that's how religions go extinct IRL as well. As soon as the leader dies, the religion dies as well

All the main players were in the room when it exploded. Cut off the head and the beast dies

>Implying

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Yeah, Christianity, Judaism and Islam didn't go anywhere after Jesus, Moses and Muhammad died.

>As soon as the leader dies, the religion dies as well
Have you heard of Christianity?

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Name one (1) mainstream religion that died when and because its figurehead died off.

it still makes no sense to at least have a plotline of cersei dealing with the mess/fallout instead of the bland shitfest we got in season 7. how many peasants did she kill blowing up the great sept?
you cant justify this shit then act as if the daenerys or jaime plotlines make no sense

All Islamic terrorism ceased immediately when Osama Bin Laden was killed.

Yes, the truckdrivers killing hundreds of people were apparently episcopalian

Lollardism

Cersei's character needed a local antagonist

how would your average retarded peasent thats just looking to rape someone every day know cersei was responsible?

Riots usually have an instigator. Revolutions usually have a ringleader. Someone had to have thought Cersei did it.

Are you fucking retarded? Christianity was nothing but an obscure cult after Jesus died. Took hundreds of years for it to become relevant.

Yes, just burn the leader, nothing bad could possibly happen
What were the Hussite wars again?

So you're saying the religion didn't go extinct after it's leader died then? Alright glad we cleared that up

Everyone with half a brain knew Cercei did it
All her enemies were present and she even used a rare substance that only the most wealthy or powerful could acquire in such large quantities and were used not long before BY HER in battle

Except the High Sparrow didn't make his own religion. He was just a radical preacher for the Light of the Seven.

It'd be like 90% of Christians not giving a shit if you executed some asshole televangelist.

you are aware that singular radical preachers were, be they alive or dead, the catalyst behind ALL religious violence in medieval and renaissance Europe right?

It became irrelevant just like the High sparrow

Id say the high sparrow was more of a david korech than jesus

They were just a vocal and radical minority. Their method was terror, much like Trump or even Hitler.

Medieval Catholicism was already a radical religion regardless of heresy due to the power of the Papacy.
The entire reason the High Sparrow exists is because the Faith of the Seven is too mellow and subservient to the crown.

Why are GoT fans so absolutely braindead and unable to think of the scope of time beyond what they see on their screen?

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yes and his methods were extremely popular among the lower class as a result
his death would have further radicalized them as it would have been extremely easy for another, even more radical figure, to rile up said peasants against the ruling class

martyring a religious figure with a large following NEVER works

what you think it sprung into existence at the council of nicaea? christianity had been gaining traction for ages before that, why do you think nero killed so many in the first century ad? why would a roman emperor care that much about an “obscure cult”?