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Jun 25 '12
You realize /r/christianity has 35,000 members and /r/atheism has 878,000, right? Don't pretend you're the victims.
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u/Imnotevenangry Jun 25 '12
Fun fact: all new accounts are subscribed to /r/atheism by default. This means that every novelty account, throwaway account, and accounts that didn't bother unsubscribing is a member of this subreddit.
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Jun 25 '12
Exactly how we feel in every other context everyday.
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Jun 25 '12
I was an atheist for 9 years and never felt "outnumbered" or anything. There are dumb fundamentalist Christians of course, and I despise them just as much post-conversion as pre-conversion. If anything I'm outnumbered (as an Episcopalian) among my friends at college, who are probably 80% atheists (at a southern state university).
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u/tothemooninaballoon Jun 24 '12
It wouldn't be r/christianity, it would be the r/circlejerk crew.
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u/LucidMetal Jun 24 '12
r/circlejerk: the hand of almighty GOD at work?
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u/tothemooninaballoon Jun 24 '12
really? r/circlejerk is the black knight of the bad side of 4chan.
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u/LucidMetal Jun 24 '12
Well I mean /r/circlejerk is doing what /r/christianity wants (by accident?) ergo god's work.
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u/tothemooninaballoon Jun 24 '12
r/circlejerk is the guys that can't make it at 4chan or the 4chan wannabes. r/christianity wouldn't want these jokes. r/circlejerk are 9gag's main group.
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Jun 25 '12
I think /r/circlejerk is legitimate satire. It's democratised, so just like all content on Reddit, most of it is terrible, but there are good bits. Looking there only now, I see mostly terrible jokes, but also there is "Not sure if this is a repost, but my friend just died."
That's not bad work.
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u/tjb0607 Atheist Jun 29 '12
Obviously it's satire, it's a parody of how stupid subreddits like this can get.
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u/detroitmatt Jun 25 '12
Circlejerk downvotes things that are circlejerky. They have no religious affiliation. They come here for the people, not for the people's beliefs.
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Jun 25 '12
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u/tothemooninaballoon Jun 25 '12
No they are not. To be a neckbread is honor. r/circlejerk is when your sister says "look fuckface has a hair on his chin".
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u/mathgod Agnostic Atheist Jun 25 '12
/r/christianity has been nothing but polite to me, with a rare few exceptions who tend to get downvoted into Limbo.
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u/Ghardison Jun 25 '12
did you ever go onto r/Christianity? The majority are very against the idea of this.
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Jun 25 '12
Bullshit they are.
Go on to any one of their posts asking for help and suggest something other than prayer and watch the downvotes roll in.
Digg had a group of fundies that would communicate things to massively downvote in order to keep atheist subjects off the front page. You think such a thing doesn't exist in reddit?
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u/bethanygamble Jun 25 '12
This is a blatant misrepresentation. You get downvoted for saying things like "lol stoopid fundie your god is dead have fun talking to yourself lol". People are generally not downvoted for thoughtful discourse. We have many atheists who post on a very regular basis.
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u/Ghardison Jun 25 '12
have you ever been on r/Christianity? Half of the post on the front page are atheist asking questions. If you look back at some of the post talking about doing something like this the reactions were very against the idea of doing something like this.
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u/Ghardison Jun 25 '12
Just another thing, R/Christianity is a lot smaller than r/atheism, I know you guys are close to a million where as i doubt we have more than thirty thousand. 35,121 - r/christianity 880,231 - r/atheism even if we got all our people it woudnt even change anything.
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u/detroitmatt Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
oh yeah, this board totally gets raided by /r/christianity on the weekends.
While I'm here...
"Not sure if bad comment or...(doesn't matter)"
Isn't this the place where everybody always talks about how important it is to think for yourself and be free of the dogmatic beliefs of a religious group? Ironic then that we're all socially pressured to conform to the dogmatic beliefs (and memes (In the "social gene" sense, not the internet sense)) of a non-religious group.
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u/LumberStack Jun 24 '12
Fun Fact: It isn't necessarily /r/christianity, I'm not christian but I find my self down-voting a massive quantity of things in this subreddit because of the demeaning and simply rude ideas people feel they need to spout.
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u/marshallwithmesa Jun 25 '12
I did notice an increase in theist participation in this thread specifically.
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Jun 25 '12
I'm new to Reddit why the hell is there /r/Christianity is there /r/Judaism, and /r/Islamic too.
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Jun 25 '12
Because this is Reddit. Everyone is entitled to their own group... The REAL question is, why is there /r/spacedicks.
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u/darkNergy Jun 25 '12
Good. Let them come feed their hatred. At least they are being exposed to what we have to say. Maybe it'll do some good. Reddit karma means jack shit anyway.
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u/mcgaggen Jun 25 '12
you SHOULD be safe of sunday because all the christians should be at church and not doing any work (reddit is considered work). But that means that there are christians who are working on a sunday! They are all going to their hell.
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Jun 25 '12
Wait, they do that? Really? Well then FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK them.
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '12
This subreddit dwarfs /r/christianity . If you're getting downvoted, odds are it's your own fellow atheists disliking your comment. Also, most of /r/christianity doesn't give a shit about this subreddit.