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Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook
An anonymous reader writes: With $16,000 and the help of the Mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, the town he lives in, Atilla Barros and three other Evangelical Christians created Facegloria, a "sin-free" version of Facebook. Swearing is banned, along with about 600 other words, as well as any violent or erotic content, and depictions of homosexual activity. 100,000 users have signed up the first month. "In two years we hope to get to 10 million users in Brazil. In a month we have had 100,000 and in two we are expecting a big increase thanks to a mobile phone app," Barros says. Acir dos Santos, the mayor, adds: "Our network is global. We have bought the Faceglory domain in English and in all possible languages. We want to take on Facebook and Twitter here and everywhere."
I'm sure Facebook will claims the use of the term "Face" infringes their trademark.
The 'Christian version' is a pretty common concept.
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It'll fail, I expect, for the same reason that most social networks fail: They depend on users to draw users, so it's very hard to get them established. For every Facebook, there are thousand Orkuts.
I'm very much nonreligious but approve of initiatives like the Christian State Project or Free State Project. As long as there's no secession/sedition, if people want to live a certain way, let them live that way. And maybe they'll come up with clever ideas that the rest of us can apply.
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with pop-up ads that say, "Sinned too much? Stay out of Hell for just 7 easy payments of $49.95 a month! And for an extra $10.00 a month, we won't even tell your church! All diddling, screwing, lying, or cheating can be removed from your heavenly record Now Now Now!"
You joke, but I (as a long-standing atheist) am quite curious to see how a facebook-for-evangelicals turns out. There are many questions that could be answered by examining faceglory(sp?). For example,
Evangelising, by definition, needs the target party to be a non-believer; what happens when the entire audience are believers? When you are literally preaching the message to the choir?
What happens in an echo chamber of significant size? Is there some madness event horizon that occurs when too many people do more socialising on godnet than on internet?
What would this madness event horizon look like? Does the group fracture? Wage war on another christian group?
For individual participants, does it reinforce the belief, reduce the belief or not affect belief at all?
For group participants, does regular participation reinforce the group structure?
Will it lead to more orthodox religious beliefs of the participants, or will they mostly just be another group with a shared belief.
etc etc etc
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
It's interesting that they claim it will be free from sin, and yet also homophobic. Can't be both, either it treats everyone like a human being or it discriminates and the users are going to hell.
Must be kinda funny when they get up to the pearly gates and St. Peter's all like "you know God's son was gay, right? Where the heck did you get 'we should hate gays' from?"
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Its like in movies old people telling the single guys that if they want a good woman they have to find one at Church and not a bar/club/back alley. Only this is the internet version of that.. I see a opportunity for a hidden escort service hiding in plain site on this.
participating in a gay wedding ceremony is very much against many people's reasonable interpretation of religious commandments.
Not, it's a blatant refusal to obey Jesus' extremely clear commandment:
"(...) whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. (...) Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; (...) And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?" (Matthew 5:39-47)
In other words, for the analogy-impaired, I'll rephrase the above:
"And whosoever shall compel thee to bake a cake, bake him twain."
"And whosoever shall compel thee to arrange them a bouquet, arrange them twain."
"And whosoever shall compel thee to take 100 photos, take 200."
And so on, and so forth.
Pretty clear, eh? Those refusing service to "sinners" aren't only breaking the law, and morals, and ethics, they are also themselves sinning against their God's will.
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