I'm a Christian, and I post on Veeky Forums and Veeky Forums quite a bit. I enjoy Russian literature and the regular shitposting, but also the threads about Christianity/religion/theology. But, although I like them, I can't understand why they exist. Why is there a Christian community on Veeky Forums, of all places? How did we get here, and why do we stay?
I'm also a brainlet, so any ideas you can offer are welcome.
edgetheists need not reply
Because of fedora memes.
everyone else is doing it ironically bud
This is a mission field. The people we're witnessing to don't like to think of themselves as a mission field. Yet nevertheless they are.
Welcome.
And also welcome is Russia's embrace of her christian church, and Putin's Christmas message that the West should be ashamed of being ashamed of our Christian heritage.
because christians aren't purer than anyone else. they look at the same fucked up porn if not worse and browse the same shitholes. stop feeling superior
Poe's law
And I don't mean that in an insulting way, just that people who are serious feel in good company here with the fedora memes, and that then causes some not so religious folks to read on religion and so the ball gets rolling.
religion threads were a mistake
The only way you can mean Poe's Law is to invoke your own inability to discern between people who believe and people who do not. It's really just a cop out on your part which requires you to never gain any discernment. And never learn anything. And of course, as intended, to feel smug and superior to everyone else.
You have to add in overrepresentation, as in in a debate there's two sides and two people while in reality you'd have much more on one side than on the other, the anonymous nature of this site causes this to happen
And it's not the inability to differentiate the genuine from the not genuine, it's the creep in which the non genuine get replaced by genuine believers of something, it's too slow to notice before the replacement has already happened.
It happens a LOT on the internet.
I barely see any fedora memes. Do you just mean the rejection of aggressive antitheism?
Well, of course. But this is a question for serious discussion posters only.
>mission field
I've considered this too. It certainly seems to play out, and actually I've had more success talking to people on the chins than in real life wrt leading them to Christ.
cool
I think you mean Rene Descartes. Also I don't think that was really Descartes. But I see what you're saying, that definitely makes sense. That people would come here because their harshest critics/the lowest effort shitposters are constantly shut down seems pretty intuitive, and from there discussion would draw others in.
I've not only learned more about Christianity but also Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, philosophy in general and the path of human culture through history from those threads. Perhaps it is you who is the mistake here.