What happened? Where's muh /r/brokehugs?

Some of you Redditors have found me on The Facebook^TM and have added me as a "friend." This is okay with me, because with each added Facebook friend I appear more and more popular than I actually am.

So, what do you think about an /r/Christianity Facebook group?

The best argument: /r/Judaism has one...and well, don't we like copying the Jews?

For the record, we have one for LinkedIn, but there are like, 6 of us and it hasn't been active in months.

EDIT:
BTW, I finally found something I could Metahug. I don't care if this is the wrong sub for this...don't take this away from me!

Just noticed this, and I was curious why.

Suicide posts and cries for help: do they increase in the (Northern Hemisphere) fall/ winter?

we've had quite a few, sadly. I really hope these posters, many of them young, all of them feeling hopeless, gain the mental health help they need and find emotional stability and, most of all, hope.

Is part of it the weather? Perhaps seasonal depression? The posts seem to have increased lately.

I was just given moderatorship of /r/CelebrateRecovery. Super, super cool.

Naturally it would happen just as I'm formatting my first book for all out Amazon Kindle delivery. Which is way more work than I thought... and I'm actually re-writing portions so that it is the true book 5 of Order of the Eternal Scribes. Releasing books out of order... oddly I figured out how to explain it in the narrative. (if you've already heard it, "Jacobs Ladder" which I call the Corestring, a super-string band that connects everything in creation has been compromised, leaving Zion and the Power of God cut off from the universe, as well as shattering time itself. The scribes are the broken virtues of Angels that have to band together to reconnect time and open Zion. Book V takes place just before the time shatter event, but introduces the main villian and human protagonist of the nine part series. It's going to be weird. Weird but cool.

But enough about that. I also have this /r/CelebrateRecovery thing to work on! YAY! CSS fun!

My question to you guys, does anyone have any experience in Celebrate Recovery, and if so (or even not so, just interested and would like to learn more) would like to help me get the sub going as co-moderators?

If you've co-modded with me in the past you know I don't expect much. This will probably be quite a step up from before, and the topics are more serious...

If you're unfamiliar with Celebrate Recovery, here's the Wikipedia article on it, very short intro. There is more on their homepage, which really emphasizes CR as a registered trademark... kind of funny because out of all the churches in the Spokane area I'm aware of, none of them run quite like this. I think because Real Life Ministries had a heavy hand in bringing it to this area... so CR looks more like this.

Anyway if you are interested let me know! I've got a job test to see if I can interview for a government job tomorrow, so hopefully that will go well and I'll have money again. But other wise this week I'll be working on DA, my site, and most likely the /r/CelebrateRecovery CSS sheet. You know me on that.

The idea is to bridge online Christians and Christians in the local Spokane area (or where-ever) into a group that can interact on their hurts and hang ups, and hopefully some people will filter in to come along side and encourage them as an addition to their local group.

Blessings guys!

Dub

Hey everyone, I've been out of touch for the last two months. My new daughter arrived! Has anybody noticed a change in /r/christianity over that time? It seems to have become increasingly fundamentalist, but maybe I'm just forgetting what it has always been like?

There's like no mods and no posts... and today I talked with our executive pastor and they are going to either get me on the leadership team at LCN, which is on hiatus for burnout, but if it turns out they're done they're going to try and get me in at Life Center or another local Celebrate Recovery program to evaluate my "shepherding skills," and if they like what they see I might get invited to the Spokane Ministry Institute and get my recommendations I need for Fuller Theological Seminary, where I'll go for my MATC with a specialization in Recovery. And if Fuller allows it I'll also do a specialization in Biblical studies, which makes me available for the CATS track, the ThM and if it seems like I'm going there, the DhM.

So I dunno... Here is the link for my request,, maybe if you guys could just upvote or even throw in a word of encouragement... I'd like to dress it up with some CSS, I'll put my story in there and some other info and invite others, perhaps invite people I know to be responsible and interested in recovery ministry to co-mod it.

If anything it could be for /r/Christian a forwarding address for all those masturbation posts. ◔_◔

Brace yerselves, TL;DR at the bottom!

Hey guys, No-one's posted in here for a bit so I thought I'd throw out a few thoughts and see if anyone had any ideas. I've been processing some stuff about church for a while and wondered if anyone could contribute to that process! r/Christianity is all a bit too public so I thought I'd send this out to the 'hugs' community.

A bit of backstory- I grew up attending a charismatic Anglican church in the UK, which hit the 'Toronto blessing' phase in my teens. Many of my memories of church from that time involved the end of the service 'Come Holy Spirit' moment, when people would quietly wait on God with their hands outstretched. I was taught that God speaks today, heals today, and his resurrection power is with us to affect the culture we live in and bring about his kingdom. 'Manifestations' happened sometimes, such as laughter, people shaking, and I guess growing up with that it becomes normalised and weaves itself into becoming a part of your faith. Alongside that grew ideas about destiny, about dreaming with God and seeking and then carrying out His purpose for my life as being one of the highest priorities I should strive for (alongside evangelism of course!).

Over the years I've attended Vinyard churches, non-denominational places, Baptist, Anglican etc. The church I'm currently a part of is non-denominational and on different days ranges from moderate charismatic to being pretty far out. Recently I've found myself becoming more uncomfortable with some of the weirder aspects of church culture, imagining myself as an outsider who's walked in off the street and found these people engaged in all this weird behaviour, for example prophetic or 'ecstatic' worship (as I've recently heard it called), singing in tongues etc. This is especially weird as I'm one of the worship leaders. We often play for at least an hour during a service, which is longer than our sermons last for. We improvise songs or bitty ditties which the congregation can hopefully follow and use to worship. The services are pretty fluid and people give testimonies/pray for people/situations sometimes in the middle of the worship 'as they feel led' to do so. Sometimes it's beautiful and sometimes it's just a big old mess and you're left feeling confused and wrung out.

Often when I plan a set list for the worship band I have this sinking feeling of 'what's all this for' or 'what's our hope in this moment'? I guess if I sat the band down and got them to talk about it they'd say something along the lines of; we want to focus all our attention on God, to praise Him and thank Him, to feel a sense of his presence and glory and power and to get closer to Him. And that for me at the moment is where the weirdness comes in. I've sometimes heard it explained that God often does things that are ineffable, that he often operates in that 'what is it?' space between what we can perceive and what we can rationalise or define. It all just seems so incredibly subjective, emotionally exhausting and intense a lot of the time! Often I feel like we've constructed our own religious schema where personal holiness and devotion equate to a differing measures of being 'annointed' and we're not really much different from the Pharisees. There's a bunch of weird shit that goes on such as 'impartation' which I'm pretty sure ain't Biblical but just goes unquestioned and unchallenged.

I don't know a huge amount about the history of the various charismatic movements over the last few hundred years, aside from having read up on a few revivals. I'm interested to know whether people see the charismatic church as a reaction against modernistic thinking, a return to the mystical, ineffable aspects of God as opposed to rationalistic Bible study where we're the ones that get to be clever and come up with the neat answers. I teach literature, and recently had to read up on the Surrealist poets in order to teach their stuff to a bunch of students. I was really struck by their valorisation of the irrational over the rational, and how some of their practises weren't that far off some of the practises of the weirder elements of the charismatic church- for babbling read tongues, for streams of consciousness read prophecy/visions etc.

I'm feeling a bit stuck in a bottleneck- I'm not sure how to grow, and I'm not sure how to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater. (First world problem, yeah I know.) I guess I'm just looking for some balance and I'm not sure how to find that!

TL;DR confused post-charismatic(?) seeks rational people for consanguinity and like-minded conversation.

What I find fascinating about this thread was that the pic received so many upvotes but the comments were almost universally criticism of the event. This reminds me of the first street preacher comic.

My theory is that there are actually a ton of young evangelicals subbed to /r/Christianity who never participate in the comment section because they don't know much about theology, history, text criticism, etc If they ever comment they are ripped to shreds. I do see a lot more of these kinds of accounts on prayer request threads, possibly because they are usually less confrontational threads.

So I sort of finished school and I dunno if I'm graduated or just waiting for the degree to be sent in the mail... Anyway... I'm kind of an unemployable guy, my last job was an epic disaster, it just seemed like my personality clashed with absolutely everyone and I just felt crushed for it. Now I can't find anything in the private sector.

And oddly enough according to my job outlook for a religious degree, one of my highest paying options is that of an author/writer. Oddly enough I've already written a book.

Now I really want to write my next series.. I dunno if they'll be full novels or novellas that I publish mainly as e-books and then anthologize... The series (the one I'm working on) is called Order of the Eternal Scribes, and I'm trying to be original by massacring every genre I know and mashing it together... The back story goes something like this...

The Bible as we know it is God's plan A for the fulfillment of history, the redemption of mankind, etc. But in the balance of free will vs God's Sovereignty, God tends to let the consequences of free will decisions play out as sort of an object lesson. A slight problem with this, some entities, such as the Elioud (descendants of the Nephilim) have free will and can act against God's will... like what if they convinced Pontius Pilate not to kill Jesus? That would be bad, but you'd think God would not let that happen.

Hence God's emergency plan... The Order of Scribes, who are a spiritual incarnation of Angelic Sevenfold Duties, people born of no parents (though possessing metaphysical backgrounds) who God created and Enoch trained to replace the role of the Watchers. They have the ability to wield Neshamite, a mineral that for lack of a better description is the solid breath of God, pure Inspiration and Creation. Through this they record and watch history, they can translate (be reborn) into different time periods. And as part of a Divine Switch, if God's Plan A should ever be messed with, the Scribes also gain the power of the Prophets, in conjunction with Neshamite can get pretty bad-ass. (They use two important tools, an Enochian Clock and a [Neshamite Scribe Pen](http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Amethyst-Rose-Quartz-Opal-Crystal-Gemstone-Charm-Pendulum-Pendant-Bead-Finding-/00/s/NTUwWDU1MA==/z/DhsAAOxyVX1RwADV/$(KGrHqVHJCEFDLpKJ0+SBRw!DUiJL!~~60_32.JPG), which they use for their work, an important part here being they can re-thread history.)

What happens in Eternal Scribes is that at some point in the future an entity has emerged, one which God prepared for and sent a man to stop, unfortunately he failed... This entity successfully shattered the Corestring (in my Dark Ascendance background the Corestring is a huge concept, threading together every moment of history, every nature of being, its like the root of the tree of existence) thereby creating a paradox. History now exists in these sort of bubbles floating in the chaos of what I can now only describe as a temporal storm of Creation being ripped apart... These bubbles are changing, in some cases "popping" and merging with the Shadow Lands, an alternate reality projected from the Abyss where the Watchers are still bound. The plan of the Elioud was to destroy the Corestring so that they could unleash Azazel, the angel of the mechanisms of war, who can re-thread history into the Darkstring, where humanity is bound and evil reigns. And in some areas there are doors to this Darkstring, because time kind of no longer has meaning, it's already been created, as well as Hell being unleashed on Earth in some parts of time.

Here's the upside... An Angel named Aniel, the Western Gatekeeper of Zion was first to see the Corestring shatter, knew it would destroy Zion, and barred the doors to Zion shut, saving God and half the Heavenly Host from the temporal storm, but also cutting them off from Creation (which has huge consequences). Aniel is destroyed in the blast of shutting the gate, four of his seven duties are killed and the remaining three scattered through time, unaware of what has happened. These are the main characters (at least for this tale... my cast list is huge, I've been working on this backstory for something like 15 years now)

There's Xander Dawson, sent to the year 4332 where he becomes a hyperdrive mechanic. He's sort of the Dean Winchester/Samuel Anders/Fox Mulder of the bunch, and his inherited duty is the Defender of Zion, which makes him a bit of a loose cannon hero.

Then there is Chance (Clayton) Dawson, born in the modern era and Ancient Cultures major at Liberty College (all fictitious if you're curious). He's the Sam Winchester/Luke Skywalker/Dirk Pitt of the group, and his inherited duty is Mercy, he tempers the other two but also compels them to action.

Last but totally not least we have Astraia Iordanou, a Corinthian slave girl who is part of the early church there in 57 AD. She is the Faith LeHane (Buffy)/Elektra/LeeLoo/Black Widow of the group, spiritual but a fierce fighter who has a huge beef with injustice, but is barely tempered by grace. Her inherited duty is Justice, which gets her into trouble being only 16 and probably the more powerful of the three... one of her powers is that she can actually smite demons.

Anyway... This is a story I'm working on now. If this sounds totally ridiculous stupid... well what can I say, I'm invested. In my published book I have this whole side plot about a genetically engineered squirrel army.

So why am I posting here... I have no idea, I feel like I kind of know you guys a tiny bit or at least feel comfortable-ish here, and I'm sort of shy about sharing this kind of stuff. Also I kind of need help... and feel free to ignore this, you probably will anyway... no big deal...

A big part of my writing method is the ability to research on my Kindle while I write... and yeah, I have a PC and a laptop, what do I need another device for? I dunno it just helps a great deal to have that third thing to reach for when you hit a wall and within a few taps can get the answer.

Problem of course... My Kindle broke. And I have literally hundreds of books, not counting the huge library I'd like to bring in that I need a device with an Android OS for. So my wife and I have been talking Kindle Fire HD (may as well step up to the dual processor and dual antenna for the kind of library I'm importing). Problem is, she's the only one working and we're barely making it financially as it is. So I'm trying to raise the money from stuff I sell off ebay.

And I hate to just pop in here soliciting people, I hate soliciting myself. So I won't post any addresses unless you guys are cool with it. Right now I'm selling mostly textbooks, but some Christian books, and I'm selling my Disciples Crosses. Basically I'm $80 short of my goal (Amazon has a student discount I have a small window of getting in on, otherwise I'll just get a refurbished unit... of course I have no idea how to pay for an Amazon order through Paypal). Ironically one of the books I'm selling for $80, if that would sell... It's for Church History, actually a good book, sells for like $150 new and it's in like new condition.

Anyway. Let me know what you guys think. And I'm sorry if this totally doesn't belong here.

TL;DR: I'm starting my writing career and need help raising a bit of money. Not huge, no big deal, feel free to ignore me.

So I went out and drank some wine. And by wine, I mean unfermented grape juice, since my pastor said they're the same thing.

meta: jokes on them, I actually drank beer

Seriously, I've graduated from loufa to sand paper. My wife keeps telling me to get my hand out of my pants.

But you know... I don't even want to know the reason for all the William Lane Craig hate, because these stupid imbeciles who air quote "don't like him," for whatever reason... That is your opinion, and having taught from discipleship curriculums based heavily on his work, I can tell you quite honestly, his goal is restoring the gospel to those areas, whether countries or groups in general, like Europe or South America where Christianity itself is seen as anti-intellectual... and other than Greg Koukl and a few others he's like the only guy doing this AND directly confronting the big name atheists, and with the exception of Dawkins who thinks the whole thing is absurd, actually doing so in respectful academic discourse. So this is like one area where the statement that pisses me off the most, "unless you hold a doctorate your opinion means nothing," actually kind of applies.

Which is my own opinion, backed by what I've actually done in ministry. That said... Did /r/BrokeHugs become the home of bitching from /r/TrueChristian because we all got bored bitching about r/Christianity? Because I can get that, the sub has an irritating way of regurgitating the same material over an over... because of the newbies. Now that /r/TrueChristian has opened its membership, guess what... Newbies. Except their lack of knowing the rules is causing far more issues because other than living in an imaginary paradigm that the name /r/TrueChristian both stands for, implies to stand for, and is probably neither true, it doesn't matter, people will think what they think and toss about their opinions as if they're gold nuggets. They're really kind of a different kind of nugget.

Pardon my french, but can we sweep aside the bullshit here? I mean for one this is the reason I hardly go to church anymore, because the academic elitism has an ownership tag and its little membership club that says "No free-thinkers allowed," and the less academically elite, the ministry, is so caught up in the "possibilities of Revelation" that they're stuck in the 80's and the political divide is going to define them no matter what. Christianity is becoming less and less about the work of Christ and more about peoples backgrounds and hurts and predispositions and how Christ fits into their own little weird paradigm.

I'm not complaining about this, I'm just pointing out a reality here that I don't think others are willing to accept. Here is another paradigm... Legitimate ministry exists and it has an impact on the world. For as many times as people want to claim Rick Warren is in league with Islam, I actually know people personally who attend his church, and yes that sounds stupid. But I'm telling you his ministry is genuine and it has had an amazing impact on the world that people ignore because they think he's a pop phenomena... something he has no control over. The same with William Lane Craig... this is one man who does one thing, travels the world and also teaches at Biola the Philosophy of Religion, through which we see a lot of today's popular apologetics. I don't know him personally but my former mentor is getting his Doctorate of Ministry at Biola, his sponsor is actually Dr. Michael Wilkins, another great man in Discipleship ministry, but he has met Dr. Craig. Their is no deceit in this mans heart... His purpose is to use his own journey (which I've never once heard anyone mention because I doubt they care) to reach the hearts and minds of those who default to atheism and have never even considered the Christian position. He is not a perfect man either... For a guy who is friends with Paul Copan I'm sometimes surprised at his arguments about the Canaanite genocide (which incidentally, from my own Biblical Archaeology point of view, speaking from both text and Archaeology, would argue never actually happened). His Ontological argument is so silly I laughed the first time I read it, but then I get that Ontology is a much larger philosophical discipline and as related to God is simply over simplified.

You have to look at Apologetics the same way you look at Intelligent Design... ID is about pointing out that there exists qualities in nature that cannot be random, therefor pointing to an intelligent designer. Incidentally, in ID, that grand designer is never properly expressed as God. For that you are stepping in to Creationism. Which I am beginning to rail against because its becoming a discipline I can no longer stand behind, from an Archaeological or Hermeneutical aspect, but to be honest... mostly from an attitude aspect. The "Rebellion of the Sciences" that exists in the Creationist circles I met through Liberty University is a kind of cancer to the testimony of Christ that is flat out infuriating to me. But this is my unadulterated opinion.

The same goes for Apologetics, it is the same thing. No philosophical argument in Apologetics will take you to God, and no one knows this better than William Lane Craig. Which is why, when possible, he points out that he is a Christian and that he requires the faith and confidence elucidated in the Bible to take him the rest of the way, and I have often heard him encourage students that if they can get to that point to at least give it a try.

Another apologist I don't hear much from here is Craig Hazen, another teacher at Biola, who wrote about a lecture he gave on comparative religion in which he developed four reasons why Christianity is worth exploring. I'll just point you to Passionate Conviction by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, pg 140, but its extremely compelling. And my point being, an example of how simple apologetics can be used to bring people to God.

Now I realize this rant probably belongs in another sub like /r/BrokeHugs, but I'm becoming less comfortable posting there because it's as if it's the new haven for the "TrueChristian" point of view, and it was for railing against that in this very forum I lost my main account, admittedly out of my own ignorance and stupidity in the first place.

I guess all I'm saying is, ever since that sub (/r/TrueChristian) opened its doors, pretty much every sub, serious or otherwise, I no longer feel comfortable in. Which is about me, I know, no one else. I have no illusions otherwise. But you all know I'm sick and I've gotten progressively worse since losing my mentor, the stupidity of some classes at Liberty... And now I'm a week away from graduating, my loans are already coming due, I have no job and no expectation I can change my perspective in a way that will make me employable again... In the last week my wife's starter went out, which as a life thing is always a pain in the ass but then the other night someone went up and down the block and broke everyone's windows, including hers. Add this to the growing darkness that my marriage is falling apart, or may have already... she doesn't even come home since her sister moved to town, part of it is them growing up together and being very close, and Bre having two kids and no support... but also I think she does it because she can't stand to be around me anymore. And I do not blame her, and I think if it comes down to it, I will not be able to fight for this marriage. And if I lose my wife, and if I lose the stupid little bits of support I get from you wonderful people that I don't even know... I've said it before, I've got a rope ready to go in my garage, and every day is a choice to live or die. I am completely alone, and I don't think God want's to hear it anymore. I got myself in this mess and all I feel is that come next week I have another choice to make... to keep fighting or to let the natural conclusion of all this simply happen. There will be no mourning, I've alienated my own church, my new church I've made no connection with and don't agree with their theology, my wife doesn't get this and doesn't want to, she's sick of going back and forth between churches. My own family and I have mutually disowned each other, which is another long story that if you know me can probably figure out...

I don't want to kill myself. I don't really want to die. But I want my existence on this planet to be over, it has served no good purpose, it's useless for God's purposes, and I see no reason or roads of change in the future how I could ever possibly change that. I'm trapped in my own purgatory and I apologize for having projected that onto all of you. I've got this stupid love/hate relationship with everything, maybe because of my mental illness, I don't know. I'll never know because I'll never make it back to a doctor for re-evaluation of my situation. I don't even trust doctors anymore, for the reason I gave above... elitism. But then I don't trust anyone anyway so what is the point of reasons. Or reason at all.

Seriously if these subs were physical rooms I'd be throwing those big inflatable beach balls at everyone, because that doesn't hurt, it's kind of absurd, but it's also kind of like... come on people. I love you but I hate you. You amuse me and lift me up but I don't want to be lifted, I want to sink into this bog of hopelessness because that is all I feel inside, besides complete emptiness. None of which is your fault.

I think the last time I heard from God he was trying to tell me I'm not going to Hell... and yet the strange, stupid thing is... I've been preparing myself, and I feel drawn to the need to go to Hell anyway.

I'm sorry for the rant. But seriously... I can't get over the ball itch. And if I had a time machine, I'd go back to 1979 and do what I could to prevent my own birth. That's all.

that r/brokehugs is the same in spirit as r/TrueChristian, which is to say that it's where progressives (rather than the inerrantists) whine about the level of discourse on r/Christianity even though they still read (and sometimes contribute to) it?

Maybe I'm saying something really obvious.

disclaimers: this is not an excuse for me to feel morally superior to either of them a la XKCD, and yes I intentionally used words other than "liberal" and "conservative" above because I have another screed for another time about that partition.

/r/TheoryofFunnyFaith/ for the lazy. I wanted to go with /r/TheoryOfChristianComedy, but I guess that was too many characters. But that's what it is... and religious humor in general.

See after I graduate I figure the one field I'll have any ability to do is write. And I've got ideas for a science fiction novel, but I'd love to write comedy work. I'd love to study comedy more and get better at it. So I have some resources, and as I have time I'll post some.

But I thought it would be a good place to for the general audience or aspiring sub creator... simply because I've seen and cataloged probably a million Christian Joke subs on Reddit and I dunno why, they just don't survive. My guess is that people assume Christian Comedy means clean jokes... as I wrote in my first post about Calvinistic comedy, Bradshaw wasn't telling clean jokes when he wrote about the kind of wrath "God delivered to the Indians." (not suggesting that is funny, it's just an example of an actual American Classical kind of writing that's supposed to be funny)

So anyway... I hope people dig this and really get into it... I actually spent more work on the CSS for this sub than I have any other. It's not even that impressive, I was just going for different.

PS- Also, as always, LOOKING FOR MODS! ಠ◡ಠ

I just never hear about it on any of the hugs, are you guys afraid of us love preaching, backhugging accepting, inclusivists?

Sooo... I liked that place. Many of us probably have nothing to do with truechristian and want our playground back.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LET THE EVANGELICALS IN!!!!!!

Sometimes I wander over to /r/Christianity to find out what all the huff is about

Who are we?

• We are a bunch of pretty average people. We live, love, laugh, play, worship, study, pray, work, eat, and sleep. We are a family, a couple, a parent, a college student, and a kid. We are office workers, nurses, doctors, police officers, teachers, students, military, farmers, housewives, cashiers, ministers, cooks, fast food servers, pizza deliverers, telecommunication personnel, secretaries, and unemployed. We come from all walks of life, various different countries, and all races on earth. We are all sinners, we all need Jesus Christ, and are a collective part of God's children. Romans 3:23 Galatians 3:26

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired word of God. Some of us choose different translations and different versions with a varying collection of different books, yet even so we believe that each book was penned by man and given by the inspiration of Almighty God. Therefore we believe in the sanctity and authority of God's Word. 2 Timothy 3:16

• We believe that Jesus was crucified on the cross as payment for our sins and raised on the third day by God Almighty. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

• We believe in salvation by the Grace of God through the blood of Jesus Christ. Titus 2:11 Ephesians 2:8-10

We know our name is controversial. So what does "Truechristian," mean?

Our sub is called /r/TrueChristian, first because the name "Christianity" was already taken. We don't view ourselves better or more real than any other Christian, as only God can know a man's heart. But we also believe that being a true Christian means holding the word of God to be true and inspired by Him, and we attempt to faithfully follow His Word. We compare scripture to scripture, as the Bible defines and proves itself, and even if we don't necessarily like the scripture we read, we strive not to dismiss it, but rather study it to discover the full meaning. In this slow but steady way, we learn to accept all that God has said. Hence True Christian.

This post was made, because of some drama over the identify of /r/Truechristian.

Oh, Mr. Triplet. I don't think he needs an introduction. (Fun fact: I thought it was "Triple T Rules, but it's "Triplet Rules," Triplet being his real life nickname.)

He's a redditor. He's very conservative. He's infamous. He is very opinionated and is not afraid of voicing that opinion at all. As such, if you're looking for some of his posts, look for the words "comment score below the threshold."

I really don't agree with him at all...on just about every issue, actually. I understand where he's coming from, because I've known a lot of tripletrules-type people in my life. (I've lived in west Texas!) But on a lot of things, I think he's straight up wrong and is too stubborn or uninterested in being convinced that he is wrong.

I can also understand why people downvote him. I don't dole out downvotes very often, but he's certainly received some from me. (Only a couple of trolls actually have a negative RES vote weight from me.)

But here's why he's in the positive. Way too many times have I seen him post some rather harmless and innocent, only for him to be below the threshold again.

Here's the latest example that inspired this post. He's not actually below the threshold, but is currently sitting at 0.

Looks really good, can't wait to see it!

It's about a movie trailer, that does look pretty good. What's wrong with that comment?

Nothing. But it's tripletrules. And so the downvotes.

Whenever I see that, I give him an upvote, to balance out the unfair downvotes. That's why he's sitting at +15 for me right now, because this happens very frequently.

I'm not trying to defend what tripletrules say 90% of the time, but if you see someone, whoever it is, being unfairly downvoted, I suggest giving them an upvote. Maybe even leave a comment like /u/Doctor_Chill did above.

That's my $0.02.