• Former Louisville priest faces new child abuse charges decades after being removed from ministry
• Pastor arrested for allegedly recording women in church bathroom in Phoenix
• Texas man who backed Islamic State acted alone in New Orleans attack, FBI says
• Vineyard Church faces nine lawsuits in wake of pastor’s rape scandal
• Pastor says God will kill Joe Biden for giving George Soros the Medal of Freedom
• Pastor accused of of sexual assault and rape says “I fell into temptation and sinned”
• More molestation allegations against retired Michigan pastor
• U.S. Marshalls search for Indiana pastor wanted for 18 counts of child molestation
• Former Chicago pastor pleads guilty to child sex abuse
• Texas Episcopal priest charged with stealing over $300K from church
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.
So is the name of this community just, like, ironic, or what?
It should be called IPWOAI
I Put Words On An Image
They also don’t trust his plan when it doesn’t involve them getting what they want.
What finally knocked me off the agnostic fence into atheism (please spare me the they are the same or all of one are the other. for me it was 50% chance of god/s/upernatural to infinitesible chance of same) was Qanon and pizza gate and such. I held out this belief that humans are sensible and the origins of these religions must of had something of significance because people don’t just believe any bullshit someone spews and make a whole community around it. That was the final thought that kept me a fence sitter. I sorta figure cults were a special situation and just vulnerable individuals being preyed on. Seeing such a mass of citizens and humanity just buying into bullshit and making it part of their identity in modern times though. Woa.
So, the Brietbart circuit of link-aggregator faux-news services and its counterparts in Right Wing Media will often have a section called “Black Crime” or “Muslim Terror Attacks” which simply compile a list of pictures, videos, and news headlines that fixate on a particular topic.
Agitators who use the site will then repost and spread the aggregates links to more generic and neutralish platforms (your Reddits, Facebooks, Twitters, etc) while asserting the prevalence of a particular set of headlines proves a bias against certain religious or ethnic groups.
Another vector for attack is for seemingly benign or apolitical communities - i can haz cheeseburger style cutsey meme communities, sports betting websites, online gaming forums - to get periodic themed interjections from these sources. So, “Chinese PETA fights back against restaurants that serve dogs” is a ahem heartwarming story that got tons of press coverage when conservative media first fixated hard on anti-China trade and military policy. People getting incredibly racist towards the Iranian, Bolivian, or North Korean soccer teams during the World Cup preliminaries is another common trope, typically by passing around “I can’t wait until you lose and your home country has you all executed” themed messages.
All this is to say, this kind of post is in poor taste and follows a broad ugly pattern of behavior. You can find far-right Christian groups that will do the exact same link aggregation, aimed at Muslims, LGBTQ organizers, and generic liberals. Don’t get suckered into simple bigotry based on cherry picked headline gore.
Sorry, but no. The helpful, godly, angelic image of religion needs to be punctured by facts.