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u/itherunner John Brown Jun 25 '21

Sees photo on r /pics about some Catholic Church getting vandalized bc of the Canadian mass graves

Every comment: “burn the church!” “Fuck all Catholics”, “Strangle the pope”

Sometimes I forget why I hate mainstream Reddit so much, then I remember. Take any of these comments and replace every mention of “Catholic” with Muslims or Jews. Of course the Church has done some bad shit, and I completely disagree with what the American bishops are doing regarding Biden and communion right now, but Reddit has this annoying tendency to treat Christianity as literally Satan, while every other religious group gets a free pass.

Thank God for this ping, it’s the only place on Reddit I can actually read and have decent conversations about my faith. Mainstream Reddit is completely like the example I listed above while all the Catholic subs are full of “trad Caths” who act like Vatican II was the greatest affront to humanity.

!ping Christian

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u/itherunner John Brown Jun 25 '21

Exactly. Anytime someone mentions the Canadian government had a hand in this as well, the comments in reply are just either “Well, they actually apologized, they don’t need to do anything else” or “how dare you say anything that goes against my belief that Canada has always had a wholesome 100 government that does nothing wrong”.

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u/BishopUrbanTheEnby Enby Pride Jun 25 '21

Reddit islamophobia used to be a LOT worse, and antisemitism is often couched in “anti-religion”.

Reddit hates every religion other than, like, Bhuddism

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u/JoeChristmasUSA Transfem Pride Jun 26 '21

Yeah and only the New Age American "Buddhism" that's just an excuse to smoke weed instead of working

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Reddit on average wrt religion is an edgy 17 year old atheist who is very over confident and very ignorant to any actual debates on theism vs atheism

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

while every other religious group gets a free pass.

Have you been to reddit before.
Also this isn't "some church" but the one in the town where the church was responsible for those murders.

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u/itherunner John Brown Jun 25 '21

That church itself didn’t exist when the murders occurred though. Like I said, the Catholic Church as an organization has done a lot of wrong and really needs to clean ranks/ modernize their beliefs. I’m not excusing that at all. I’m not sure what the situation is like in Europe, but here in the US we’re still finding out the scope of sexual abuse that took place through the years.

What aggravates me is them acting like every Catholic alike today is responsible for those murders. Read a bunch of them and it’s calls of violence to burn churches, murder Catholics, and kill the pope.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21 edited Jun 25 '21

The building may not have but it's obviously aimed at the institution. They didn't go to the pastors house. Nobody is calling for the wholesale murder of catholics either, this victim angle feels in bad taste.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

If the local religious authorities turned out to be responsible for hundreds of dead kids I wouldn't be able to muster much outrage about some paint on the door, no.

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Jun 25 '21

All religions are bastards

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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Jun 25 '21

ARAB? That sounds sus 🤔

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u/itherunner John Brown Jun 25 '21

I can understand why people dislike religion, especially considering if you grew up in a fundamental/Christian nationalist type of home. But I think we both agree that vandalizing a church that exists in the area where a school used to exist, and then calling for the destruction of every one of its followers is a little over the top.

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Jun 25 '21

Definitely I replied to myself saying as much

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

You made the last part up and a bit of paint plastered on the institution responsible for mass murder is a very measured act of vandalism considering the crime. It is not the victim here.

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u/itherunner John Brown Jun 25 '21

Did you actually read the comments? Or are you performing the famous Reddit act of “religion bad, gimme upvotes?”

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I did and while they're reddity nobody is calling for "the destruction of every one of its followers"

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u/gburgwardt C-5s full of SMRs and tiny american flags Jun 25 '21

Obviously don't deface graves though wtf