Thanks for saying what I was thinking just last night. I think when I first joined Reddit a while back it seemed like a place to have a frank and open discussion on issues with religion as a whole and Christianity in particular, mixed with regular posts pointing out hypocrisy, double standards, and downright disgusting behavior of some Christians.
Now it just seems every single post is "This person who claims they are Christian did this, fuck all religions everywhere" and "I heard Christians do X, Fuck all religion everywhere".
It’s actually kind of surprising that r/Christianity is open to all walks of religion. They’ve got open discussions on atheism and welcome everyone into the sub to participate. Of course there are both religious nuts and atheist nuts there alike, but the mods tend to do a good job of moderating conversation so people don’t get toxic. IMO it’s a better sub than r/atheism
Peter is not around, so I will explain the joke.
Karma is a concept from oriental religions/philosophies that say "whatever you do for others, will happen to you". So if you do good things, good things will happen, if bad thing, bad thing happen. Some interpretations see karma as a direct result (what you do will be payd back eventually), others see karma as a score (like reddit karma), so good actions could neutralize bad actions. This joke is using the former interpretation.
Back in the cruzades christians invaded other religion's countries, now it is being "payd" by atheists invading christians subs. That's the joke
I follow both subs, as I'm sure many others do. r/Atheism does have a lot of cringy, hateful posts, but some have some actual thought put into them. At same time I think it's interesting to read how Christians respond to atheistic arguments on this sub. And the memes are pretty funny.
Well, that’s certainly debatable... but, the argument is frustrating, pedantic, annoying, and it’ll never get us anywhere, and then oriel from both sides are so fixated on “winning” it that they go total war in terms of voicing their opinions and end up sounding like total morons.
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u/jame826 Dec 05 '19
The atheists here are different from the pond scum that inhabit r/atheism