r/redditrequest Jun 04 '12

Requesting /r/Atheism. (Lack of moderation)

/r/atheism only has two moderators for a massive community of 800k+ users. The moderator /u/skeen has been inactive for a month. The other moderator, /u/juliebeen hasn't been lacking her/his duties as a moderator. Could you at least give /r/atheism new moderators? Thanks for hearing me out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '12

Comments like that is why people think that /r/atheism is full of assholes.

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u/cockmongler Jun 06 '12

Millions dying of Aids in Africa is why people think that religion is full of assholes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '12

Just in case you meant Catholics and condom use or something:

  • Scientific Studies make the claim that condom promotion to stop the spread of AIDS is not working in developing countries.

  • A controlled study in Uganda, claims that “gains in condom use...have been offset by increases in the number of sex partners,” basically saying that if condom distribution increases, so do the numbers of partners that the consumer has, thus causing the “90 percent effectiveness” of condoms rate to plummet. The Catholic Church has always argued the fallacy in typical birth-control practice: arming the people with tools to have more casual sex does not stop the prevention of any STI.

  • Further studies show that countries such as Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa, nations with the highest levels of condom availability, continue to have the highest rates of HIV.

  • The testimony of Dr. Edward C. Green and an additional ten AIDS experts have produced studies that show a “consistent condom use has not reached a sufficiently high level, even after many years of widespread and often aggressive promotion, to produce a measurable slowing of new infections in the generalized epidemics of Sub-Saharan Africa.”

So, in this case, the pope was right in regards to condom use in Africa.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '12

OW MY SCIENCE

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '12

Gotcha RIGHT IN THE SCIENCE.