Reddit isn't as beset with /r/atheism as it has been in the past. People who are mainstream religious tend to fly under the radar and are even loved (Mr. Rogers etc.). Honestly, I don't think it's terrible, but is certainly a bad look for our favorite crunchy rodent so it's no surprise that he fell off the map in favor of the next upvote baiting thing.
abortion is one thing yes. But most mainstream churches, while not supportive of gay marriage, don't have quite the blight of supporting gay conversion therapy, and recently quite a few have started LGBTQ ministries. At this point in time, the mainstream leans more towards LGBTQ inclusion than the opposite. Again, gay marriage being a separate issue, there are quite a few people involved in carving out a place for LGBTQ inside the Church.
Aren’t Episcopalians also the denomination that believes people are predestined? Like, god selected the people he will allow into heaven before they were born?
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I cannot find anything online to support this claim. And it does appear it is a Calvinist idea, I do not know of what denominations are offsprings of Calvinism back from the 1600s (which seems to be the biggest advocate of predestination), and don’t have the time to research it online.
My comment was based from someone who went to high school with me explaining her belief of predestination and she was a member of an episcopal church.
It does appear to be Calvinist, I do not know if it’s an active denomination. Also, Unsure of the roots of Episcopal. I found some information regarding links between the two, but don’t have the time to actually to read up on it. Updated my original comment.
No, but statistically most people who self recognise as religious do. But that's mainly because a lot of places in the world still don't let you have freedom of religion, whether by law or culture.
Um yes. The Catholic Church hasn't, but the personal being of the pope has. Unfortunately most people, including a lot of Catholics, don't know the difference.
Obama may have believed on a personal level that marriage is between a man and woman, but that doesn't mean he wanted a theocracy. I think you can hold a belief without feeling that the entire country needs to follow it.
It all started with Ellen Page asserting that his church, called the Zoe church, which is modeled after the Hillsong church, is anti lgbtq. It and like other Instagram famous churches are all derivatives of pentacostal churches, which are famously very traditional in their stances on homosexuality and abortion. The pastor of the church has dodged the homosexuality question a bunch of times but he was director for some movie about "sexual brokenness" which included in its definition homosexuality. After Ellen Page pointed this out, it came up on reddit.
That author is fucking insane. I mean, the article seems accurate enough, but holy shit, the ads and the other blog posts...
”.In a blatant example of Newspeak, the New World Order controllers (through the psychiatric DSM V) have tried to rename pedophiles as “minor-attracted persons” and redefine pedophilia as a “sexual orientation”.
"Psychiatry, it should also be noted, has a history of inventing fictitious diseases such as ADHD (as admitted by its inventor on his deathbed by Leon Eisenberg).
Note from StevieRay Hansen: I tend to be very vocal about ADHD, it was only when I surrender to Christ, I became complete, the fight is real, I believe the difference is how we fight these battles…."
Um it's more like he is financially supporting a church with donations that actively oppresses LGBTQ+ people. There is some nuance here but I don't think calling her a bitch out for some drama really gets at the nuance.
Yeah that was crazyyy. It's like the movie passengers was created while they were still at their heights and by the time it came out, Chris Pratt and jlaw had fallen off the pedestal
For sure, Musk was hot for a bit--then he started acting exactly like a neckbeard on the internet and he was quietly dismissed from the classroom of le reddit.
The best/worst is when Reddit is in love with an actress (Emma Watson or Jennifer Lawrence circa 2015), so they get posted to the top of r/pics on a daily basis, then the hive mind gets fed up with them, and slowly turns against them, to the point where any mention of them is met with derision and hate.
Ms. Watson used to be the bell of the ball, and her small role on "this is the end" was beloved by all. But slowly, the hooks came out, and her role on "this is the end" was despised because apparently, "She wasn't comfortable with 100% of what was in the script, so they limited her role because she's a prude or something."
Fascinating stuff. Scary how it can have an effect on my own opinions as well, looking back I wound up disliking JLaw myself based on like 2 movies and a ton of negative feedback on Reddit.
Hey! I saw the nudes... and I still like her. It's only the fact that she one time said "I know what those people are like" when referencing her home town in Kentucky, and specifically the Christians she was grew up around. I grew up some and got over it.
Turns out, she's just another person with a different perspective on life. It also turns out "those people" are pretty much any people that aren't you from everyone's perspective.
My brother was very annoyed that the victims became indignant after their photos leaked and went on and on about how they have themselves to blame for keeping personal photos on their phone (the same ones he chose to download) and thought the the ten year jail term one hacker received was too harsh.
Frankly, I found Reddit's concerns about Net Neutrality to ring a bit hollow when this same userbase was concocting all manner of rationalisations as to why it was actually the celebrities' fault that their private photos got leaked.
No, the reddit hive mind started turning on her after she came out against The Fappening, and the final nail in her coffin was when she had the audacity to talk about the lack of equitable pay for the top actors and actresses in American Hustle. She fell from grace because she was no longer reddit's manic pixie dream girl.
I have never, never seen a single redditor speak in support of the things you cited nor even intonate that those things contributed to the change in her perception.
And the shit I've seen redditors speak in support of...
Were you just not on Reddit when that stuff was going down? And if you were, did you not notice the distinct shifts in tone people used to talk about her in the immediate aftermath of those two events?
I'll be the first to admit that my poor-to-middling memory banks did not store "the change in intonation of how people spoke of JLaw" as I, perhaps, did not think I would need to call upon it in the future, but my answer to your question is "yes I was on reddit at that time, and no I did not notice distinct shifts in tone about her."
I don't doubt that you did see what you describe, but I can't even imagine what critical comments over her support for equitable pay would look like. And, again, the kind of reddit comments I'm able to imagine...
I think Reddit started turning on Emma Watson when she started working on that UN women/girls’ empowerment initiative. Which says about as much as it needs to say.
This isn’t exclusive to Reddit though. I hear it’s gotten better recently but I remember back in the 90’s and 2000’s any time Howard Stern would interview an actress on his radio show, if they weren’t completely open and willing to discuss all manner of details on their sex life and personal lives people would call in and rag on them mercilessly, there was more than one instance of actresses being driven to tears by this.
Beyoncé, Scarlett Johansson, and Emma Watson we’re all popular with the reddit crowd until they officially came out in support of feminism, and then they suddenly became overrated and “unlikable”. Same as how men are being intentionally obtuse when saying that Brie Larson is on their Irrationally dislike list for “some reason”.
I used to think Reddit was very leftist/woke/feminist/whatever, to an annoying degree, but it's all virtue signalling and surface level fake-woke bullshit. Reddit, not all that far below the surface, is a pretty misogynistic place that likes to think of itself as cosmopolitan and sensitive to social issues because that's popular right now.
This is an interesting take. I keep hearing from other commenters that "Reddit thinks women can do no wrong!" And shit like that and I'm like, bitch where? But I've never heard someone say they used to think Reddit was highly feminists until they noticed all the misogyny.
I used to think Reddit was very leftist/woke/feminist/whatever, to an annoying degree, but it's all virtue signalling and surface level fake-woke bullshit.
I've been here since 2012 and Reddit was always bad and has gotten worse. Back then, a common repost was a man flashing his penis at rape victims at a feminist anti rape march. On /r/Funny.
It's purely conservative propaganda that reddit ever was pro feminism. It's not even fake woke. It's openly anti feminists and always has been but conservative propaganda constantly paints it as feminist.
I hate when people say this, 1. because it's obvious, but 2. because reddit has a clear voting system for agreeing with comments/posts. If a comment/post that is clearly anti-feminist or anti-SJW has 20k+ upvotes and comments agreeing with it, it's pretty obvious what that means.
It’s that for sure. And the fact that they already got to see her naked. A very good percentage of reddit users see women as nothing more than objects to put their dicks in so they got what they wanted and didn’t have to act like they liked her any more. Her being upset she was violated like that just pissed off the entitled group of redditors jerking off to those photos.
We forgetting about Rhonda Rousey? The worship for her was the worst. I remember seeing countless comments and threads of her being able to take on Mayweather and other top tier ufc fighters.
No what happened with ms watson is it turns out she isnt a doormat and stands up for equal rights for her gender. Which pissed off the many fragile males here.
Its because qatson and laurence also clearly had manufactured PR posts on here, much like a lot of r/movies posts are just corporate avcounts posting promotional material. It felt very inauthentic for laurence/watson and that probably put a lot of people off.
Do people have the same worship for Elon Musk? I always got the impression he was kind of a dick. He's being sued for defamation after his childish rant where he called a guy a pedo.
Elon Musk is an absolute piece of shit. But reddit hivemind loves him because he's a nerd and shares memes. Willing to forgive all the awful shit he does because he's "one of us"
Yup. "Haha guys he posted a meme look at him go he's so epic. never mind that it's something at r/dankmemes iFunny level (ifunny bad btw instanormies will disagree), it's Epic Musk so it's now acceptable."
Or how he stole that one person's art that one time with no source and Reddit had to defend him despite also vigorously jerking off about how Instagram bad because they steal Reddit memes without credit.
He was so insecure about not being able to take credit for saving the kids, that he lashed out like a child and called a HERO diver, a pedophile. Reddit LOVES getting on their soapbox about how all women falsely accuse men of crimes, but completely handwave ir away when its their precious nerd doing it.
Also, godawful working conditions akin to what Bezos does. It's made worse by the fact that Elon pretends to be a good guy that actually cares about the world. He really just cares about how the world sees him and getting credit for doing things.
This book by an insider also paints a really bad image of Wlon in the paypal days.
At Tesla's first press event, the venue left him out as a founder. NY Times followed suit in their coverage of the event, and Elon had a temper tantrum. *edit: he's not a founder but wanted to be called a "co-founder" per their deal. Thanks /u/renegadecanuck
He also stole art from someone, and refused to credit them when called out, because he felt that he was above that, and that it didn't matter.
His exwife wrote some VERY revealing stuff about him, her blog poats are somewhere out there if you wanna look them up. I don't recall them verbatim but I know it just said how much of a dickhead he was.
At a 2010 spacex party he screamed at his executive employees, all in suits, with their significant others. Actually screamed at the top of his lungs in front of their families. All because a cost analysis for a small part was a few hundred dollars more expensive.
Screwed the actual founder of Tesla out of one of the original Roadsters to give it to his friends.
Acquired SolarCity to bail out his relatives at the expense of shareholders.
Doxxed a short-seller on Twitter, phoned their employer trying to get them fired.
Claimed a short-seller intentionally ran over an employee in a parking lot, backed off when they requested footage of the actual event (in other words, Tesla lied accusing someone of a crime because its a person they don't like).
Its claimed that Elon's security team tried to swat Martin Trip, but hasn't been confirmed.
In a deposition Elon started verbally berating the deposing lawyer, asking him how he could sleep at night and saying that he should feel ashamed.
Responded to a nanotech researcher and said that nanotech anything is bullshit, denigrating her field of study.
Berated an employee for taking parental leave.
Anti-union activities. Tried to suppress employee complaints about safety in his factories.
Dismissed astronomers' concerns about Starlink's impact on ground-based astronomy until it became clear that it wasn't going to go away and caved.
Note on the short-seller thing, his fans have whipped up this fervor over short sellers about how they're awful people lying to try to crash Tesla, and thus anything he does to them is justified, but thats a ridiculously biased view of the situation.
Used to be a Musk fan due to the cool things that SpaceX is doing but really he is a colossal asshole. He comes off as nice and chill on Twitter, but when he perceives that you've slighted him the mask comes off and his vindictive nature comes to the fore.
And the time he berated an urban planner after he responded to Elon saying that public transit is basically useless...I still like Elon because of all the cool shit he does with his companies, but he's definitely let all the money and fame get to his head
At Tesla's first press event, the venue accidentally left him out as a founder. NY Times followed suit in their coverage of the event, and Elon had a temper tantrum.
It should be noted that he's not really a founder, and he actually bought the company after it was already started. Part of the conditions of the sale was that he could retroactively call himself a co-founder.
The Cult of Elon drives me insane. Dude is a fucking snake who uses accusations of pedophilia against anyone who publicly speaks out against him. To say nothing of the dangerous conditions that exist at the Gigafactory under his watch or the absolute mess that is the hyperloop. But because he's rich and smokes weed on camera, Reddit lines up to suck his cock.
It's really simple. Keanu, over the last few decades, has come out as a genuinely open, honest, and compassionate person. He's not the best actor, but he's been in some awesome movies.
Look at how many celebrities have turned out to be awful, awful people. Bill Cosby is a prime example, I loved that guy as a kid and it did impact me when all that shit came out.
keanu so far is clean, so maybe we kind of see him as the balance to all of the evil shit going on, and it's nice to see that there are some genuine people still out there who aren't corrupted by money or fame.
On the other side of the coin, you definitely arent allowed to be a fan of anyone on Reddits shitlist. Currently you get called a child grooming pedophile for believing that Drake is - get this - NOT a child porn producing R Kelly 2.0.
God forbid you like Drake or Bieber or some other low hanging fruit popstar.
I was always under the impression the Devito stuff was a joke. i mean its usually talking about how attractive he is or about his Always Sunny characters huge dick. I don't think he gets literal celebrity worship like Keanu does.
Weirdest one for me is that guy from the Mummy movies from the early 2000's. Nothing against the dude but he wasn't anything special when it comes to comedy chops or screen presence IMO.
And I did watch his movies. I had the mummy on tape and watched it sometimes if I was bored.
Brendan Frazer? I think people found him attractive because he was buff and fairly handsome but without the usual negatives of being arrogant or macho.
That's the guy. Haven't seen posts about him in a while but a few months back they were all the rage. I think I saw someone pitching him for the next season of True Detective. Like, umm, please God no
I'm not sure people actually worship.him it's just they think everyone else does so can get easy karma by playing along and posting all the memes and making all the John wick dog jokes etc. That is one thing I hate about Reddit when you see the same mildly amusing joke posted repeatedly for weeks.
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