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Idk why I'm mentioning it but compared to a lot of other online platforms where if religion is being mentioned outside of a religious community it is really in your face on Lemmy it seems like when it is mentioned outside of that kind of community it seems relevant to whatever they are saying and are generally nice.

Its a nice change of pace.

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[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago

Based on my personal observations, there are sort of like 3 rings to a religion. The outermost contains the vast majority of adherents who are pretty casual in their faith. If they are of some Christian denomination say, they'll show up for Christmas or Easter services and go their separate ways otherwise. The 2nd ring contains people who attend services regularly but are non-evangelical. They are devout in their faith but not pushy about it.

Then finally, there is this innermost ring of evangelicals who make it their mission to tell you how great it is to find God and can be pushy enough to make a priest cringe. People from the outer rings generally try to avoid this group, but they tend to be the most active online. I guess maybe lemmy has yet to be overrun by them?

[-] StereoTypo@beehaw.org 7 points 4 months ago

I think this is fairly accurate, most people in the 2nd ring take the teachings related to humility to heart.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah that tracks. I don't see a lot of 3rd ring people running a soup kitchen. It's 2nd ring people who aren't out there to proselytize.

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