Thursday 25 August 2011

Trolls take over r/catholic

Yesterday a group from the social media website reddit took over the message board for catholics there. Noticing that the moderators had been absent for some time they used they made themselves the moderators. They then proceeded to be as annoying and obnoxious to those in the community as possible, including posting pictures of a semi-naked boy, removing legitimate posts, asking for confessions, and so on.



For me this highlights a fundamental asymmetry between Christianity and those who want to attack it. A Christian can't do this type of thing without being a hypocrite. As this post points out, Christianity is far more than assenting to a set of propositions.