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."

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[Ol Olsoc]

Ask a Christian, and they will say they hate the sin, not the sinner.

Right. Sorry, I was raised in that atmosphere. Hatred is a core value of conservative Christians.

I'll stand by for your "no true Scotsman" response.

Then all you're left with is whose definition of sin do you use? Not exactly the criteria God uses to determine entrance through the gates.

Treat others as you would like to be treated, and don't be a dick.

You can continue to vilify and misunderstand Christians til the cows come home, but you won't change them.

You are 100 percent correct, especially for the more conservative and fundamentalist versions. They thrive on criticism and rejection, as it proves their dark view of the world. This is the downside of when one of the political parties chose fundies as a core group of their political party. While yes, they are willing to vote for candidates that only promise but never deliver on matters like abortion, they are completely happy to steer the party into areas that will always lose. Barry Goldwater was right about them.

Oh, and by the way, God's Son is God.

Dagon is no one's son.