I take the assumption to be that Christians are somehow not able to resist porn by their own efforts?
New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
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#22So, Andrew Tate videos would be blocked for talking about male gender roles? I don’t understand why we are replacing “LGBT Content” with “Gender Content” in formal vocabulary.
Most conservative Christians (at least the ones I know in LDS and evangelical circles) would be very uncomfortable with their kids watching Andrew Tate videos, yes.
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#23This is such an extreme thing to do, there must be a better way. Why can't religion coexist alongside societal progress? From my (limited) understanding of the Bible, as it was translated and translated over the years to our common, modern languages a lot of it has been adjusted, and these adjustments don't align with the original text. Perhaps it needs to be changed further. I would love for people to have a religio…
Isn't that the whole point of religions... they offer something timeless, transcendent, or divinely revealed that stands above whatever the current culture happens to celebrate or condemn this decade.
The current, past, and future values and norms that are decided by societies are fleeting, old tomorrow, always changing.
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#24This is such an extreme thing to do, there must be a better way. Why can't religion coexist alongside societal progress? From my (limited) understanding of the Bible, as it was translated and translated over the years to our common, modern languages a lot of it has been adjusted, and these adjustments don't align with the original text. Perhaps it needs to be changed further. I would love for people to have a religio…
Many people don't agree with the current and future societal values and norms. Why can't people be left alone in peace?
Because they won't leave others alone in peace. Because they work to enshrine their religious dogma into law and enforce it with violence.
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#25I take the assumption to be that Christians are somehow not able to resist porn by their own efforts?
I think that statement describes a wide swath of non Christians as well.
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#26Seems pretty high effort compared to a content blocker mobile app or native parental controls. I'm not sure why anyone would get this.
all it takes is a little faith!
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#27USA is a joke now
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#28I take the assumption to be that Christians are somehow not able to resist porn by their own efforts?
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#29This is such an extreme thing to do, there must be a better way. Why can't religion coexist alongside societal progress? From my (limited) understanding of the Bible, as it was translated and translated over the years to our common, modern languages a lot of it has been adjusted, and these adjustments don't align with the original text. Perhaps it needs to be changed further. I would love for people to have a religio…
There are plenty of progressive Christians who remember that Jesus’s most important command was to love your neighbor. The better question is, why are these fundamentalists so successful at co-opting the word “Christian”? Why does “Christian phone network” mean one that blocks homosexual content rather than one that donates 10% of revenue to feed the poor?
Ideally a Christian cell phone network would do both. It would also provide only healthy foods in the office and encourage fitness (gluttony and sloth are sinful), prohibit working on Sundays, and encourage policies to steward our world. It would control off-hours demands for those who are married and have children, and therefore have family obligations to which they must see, and might hold mixers for its singles to encourage family formation. It would expect humility and servant-leadership from its executives and patience from its managers.
I would prefer to do business with such a network but one does not exist. Apparently, people do not believe there's much market demand for any but the first of these.
This is similar to the church itself, which tends increasingly towards alignment with one faction or another. In turn, it becomes blind to the sins of its own and focused wholly on the sins of its schmittian enemy. The conservative church will tell you of the sins of homosexuality but not obesity nor wrath; the liberal will tell you that insufficient love is sinful while ignoring transsexuality. I find neither particularly Christian.
Perhaps the Benedictines could run an MVNO. I am no catholic but they'd probably do a much better job.
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#30“Fisher says he’s recruited a mix of Christian influencers to advertise the plan and has also done outreach to thousands of churches ..."
Religion is the world's oldest con --- and this is yet another example of how it can be used to fleece the faithful.
The only thing that prevents me from getting involved in something like this is my non-Christian morals.