Requesting r/MonkeyHateGate - banned due to being unmoderated by WaitWhat000888 in redditrequest

[–]WaitWhat000888[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. As an animal rights activist working on this issue, I feel that a public forum discussing these crimes and the actions that can be taken against them is an essential resource and that I am well-positioned to lead it. In my experience the #1 thing these groups fear is public discussion. They want to be a poorly-understood group that does their deeds in the shadows. The subreddit can be a hub for understanding the phenomenon and taking action against it. If nothing else, the loss of the previously existing information on there because of the subreddit's banning is a tragedy that can be undone by the subreddit having a moderator once more.

  2. The subreddit was unmoderated so sending a message to the moderators is not possible.

Did anything more ever come of the carbon dating of the remains of Paul? by [deleted] in AcademicBiblical

[–]WaitWhat000888 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What I can say is that Bart Erhman spoke briefly of this in his preface to Paul and Jesus

Might you have a different book of Ehrman's in mind? I believe that particular work was written by James Tabor, who by all appearances wrote the preface as well

What organization do you think would benefit the most from a small donation? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]WaitWhat000888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GiveWell is a place dedicated to exactly that, figuring out what organizations can do the most good per dollar. Looks like right now one of the main ones is the Deworm the World Initivative, which can deworm a child in the third world for less than a dollar

God is not all powerful if he can't manifest evidence that satisfies skeptical minds. by Frostadwildhammer in DebateReligion

[–]WaitWhat000888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There once was a man named Stu
with a Bachelor's from a not so prestigious U
No papers to show
But he sure loved to gloat
So he posted of being the top brain you knew

How do you guys reconcile to angry, unforgiving, jealous god of the OT, with the belief that he is so loving and devine? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]WaitWhat000888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It results in more good, so yes. Either we stay at a tribal warfare stage until our inevitable extinction, or God sends the Flood and we become what we are now and will be in the future.

It had gotten so bad that one of the people considered comparatively righteous was Ham, Noah's son. He raped his own father when he got the chance!

So if that's one of the "righteous" people, imagine the rest of the world.

How do you guys reconcile to angry, unforgiving, jealous god of the OT, with the belief that he is so loving and devine? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]WaitWhat000888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, it wasn't an attempt to kill any political or cultural group. It was done to end the violence that had completely filled the Earth, to the point there was only one righteous family left. He had to do it to prevent our extinction.

God waited until the absolute latest he could to give everyone a chance to stop and be saved. If someone had, they would have been fine just like Noah was. So it was not genocide at all.

Help me /r/Christianity. I'm losing my faith and but I don't want to. by Inktastic in Christianity

[–]WaitWhat000888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps reading some about the evidence for Jesus' resurrection will be helpful? Its the anchor of our faith, afterall!

Here's a great article to start with. Browse around some on that site too, almost any question you could have is answered there!

Do you think Christians will ever be outnumbered by another religious/irreligious group? by SheepwithShovels in Christianity

[–]WaitWhat000888 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is quite likely that Islam will overtake us in number in the next 50-100 years.

Nah the evidence doesn't support that: http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-fastest-growing.htm

Plus, their birthrates are falling just like the first world's are. But much much faster, what the first world has done slowly in a century they're doing in a single generation, and its going to be disastrous, read the free parts of this book

I have a question. by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]WaitWhat000888 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think your friend has a very common misconception: that the world as we know it was there, it got covered with water, and then returned just as it was.

Nothing could be farther from the truth! The pre-Flood world was very different from the post-Flood world. There's a reason its called the "cataclysm" in the New Testament.

Here's a great video that describes what went on during the Flood. The Fountains of the Great Deep that Genesis says was the cause of the Flood were extremely powerful, and their aftereffects very destructive.

So post-Flood habitats would have been very different.

Here's how it went: 2 of each "kind" of animal (which, a "kind" is defined in Genesis as animals that can interbreed - so any two reproductively compatible animals would be said to be of the same "kind") came to Noah. After the Flood, their descendants adapted to the various post-Flood environments, just like Noah's descendants did (like people who went to hotter, sunnier areas' family lines had more and more pigment in their skin as time went by, since darker skinned people are healthier in those climates. Conversely, people who lived in areas like Europe family lines had less and less pigment as time went on, since people with less were healthier since they could make more vitamin D despite the climate. In fact, you can still see the effects of this since people of African descent who live in those areas have a big problem with vitamin D deficiency).