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No, probably no Bible bots (though there are plenty of bots here, whose end goal is to collect karma to sell upvotes).

However, as Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."

Trends and themes often resurface on Reddit, where discussions can cyclically return to religious topics or quotes.

Who pays for upvotes? Advertisers?

The reason is that there are huge amounts of religious texts, and what they record people's understanding of the world, grappling with the problems in their lives, and trying to make sense of their experiences: they are about being human.

If you are open minded about/not hostile to religion (in general or a particular religion) you will find a lot of wisdom in religious works. Not just "scriptures" but a lot else, written from ancient times to contemporary.

You should consider the commenting guidelines

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

And adhere to that culture before complaining about others

> And adhere to that culture before complaining about others

Indeed! One might even say "you hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."

And of course because we are explicitly forbidden from talking about such a problem, it never happens, right?

It leads to an objectively worse discussion. People posting stuff, some of which people don't like, and some of which is astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like, is a better discussion than all of that plus people accusing everything they disagree with of being astroturfing, shilling, brigading, and foreign agents - especially since the accusations are, at best, imperfectly correlated with the reality.

What is the reddit fallout that happened last year?

(I don't follow or read reddit, unless a search for something specific leads me to a particular page, so I'm clueless about this and curious to know more)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy

I was born to a mostly non-religious Muslim family in a 99% Muslim country so I am not simply defaulting to my own creed here.

Ignore the trolls and the downvoters, I appreciated the quote!

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