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New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT content
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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If you have to self-police like that, your followers don't believe in the morals you preach.
Reminds me of being asked how I keep from murdering and raping people, since I do not believe in an eternal damnation.
scary people, if religion is only thing that keeps them from doing that, which that question implies.
How do you hold back the nonstop compulsion to commit horrible crimes which we all feel constantly??
I do only the crimes that my dear friend Mr fibbles the sockpuppet has approved.
What do you mean being a good person is its own reward?!?
Why take personal accountability when you can offload it to a paid service?
Which is precisely why this will fail. Christians don't actually believe anything they preach. They just want to be seen as pious, and a phone carrier doesn't give them a visible virtue signal.
I think this network will primarily be used by parents to keep their kids from being tempted into sin or discovering that queer people exist
They're gonna be shocked to find out that Jesus shared his body with 12 other men.
One of which spent an awful lot of time literally cuddling Jesus.
Kissing Jesus on the cheek is totally not gay my dudes! In face, if you wanna kill people who are like Jesus, just kiss em on the cheek! That'll show the police officers that you're an American born cisgender hetero white dude who is totally not gay and will send Trump haters to die./s
So they'll never know that people of the same sex fuck each other and continue to perpetuate hate towards them. Now that is sin.
Except for some who just cheat with people of their own gender and live in extreme guilt wondering why they keep doing it.
Bet you anything a lot of people using it will be parents forcing their kids to
Nah, if I have kids (once the economy allows me to do so without being on the verge of bankruptcy), I'm giving them a Karri Messenger 1 to start out with, then the Messenger 2: https://karri.io/collections/all
Then when they're older: Light Phone: https://www.thelightphone.com/
If they absolutely need a phone like the other kids, or when they're 16-18, they're getting a phone with GrapheneOS on it.
If you have to self police like that, you might have a gay porn problem.
If history is any indicator .... lol
The thought is it is the sick that need a doctor
I'm not certain that spending time on networks that are "void of lgbt, void of the trans" is the doctor that these people need to cure them of their transphobia and homophobia.
People not like me are evil! Being constantly hateful about nature ... their "god's" own invention. How blasphemous.
Right, but their mentality is that it is a disease. Also I think the saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" applies here.
Their mentality is wrong, and being lgbt neither needs preventing nor curing.
Thank you
I never said it was right, it's just thier mentality
Medical experts have come around to homosexuality not being a disease since the 70's (in USA) so I'd hope the mentality you speak of is diminished now.
By repeating those claims you are perpetuating those harms, regardless of what you “really believe.”
No.
It's good to understand why people, even those with whom we disagree, are making the decisions they are making.
I'm sure you would rather those who disagree with you seek to understand why you make the choices you do etc.
I'm a firm believer in know your enemy
Then you know better than most that there is enough darkness in this world, and no need for you to write more of it
To ignore it is to give it more power to grow. The 1930's proved ignoring it doesn't make it go away
“The Jews could have prevented the holocaust if they’d just played devil’s advocate a little harder” is one of the most morally reprehensible takes I’ve ever seen in an online space, and one I simply cannot believe anyone can make in good faith.
I was refering to the US and UK and France. National problems have to be handled by nations. Like I told someone else in a different thread, I'm not your enemy here.
And Jesus says literally everyone is sick and the only cure is to embrace selfless love for all. So why are they pretending they can fix it with draconian authoritarian dipshittery?
Oh, right, it's because they don't care about Christ, they're just leaning on the social leverage provided by espousing a Christian identity. My mistake.
So long as it is voluntary, I'm alright with it. Let people choose what's best for themselves. If it attempts to get codified into law, that's a different matter.
Is it voluntary? How voluntary? Is it voluntary like, something a random stranger might decide is best for them, or voluntary like someone was raised by an abusive religious family so this seems normal to them despite science proving otherwise? Voluntary like someone convinced them they'd go to eternal damnation if they didn't go along with it?
Voluntary as in I can choose a different mobile operator.
You can, but can everyone? We're talking about a demographic that only exists because they're hypocrites who enforce their religion of peace through violence at every level of society. I don't care if you think they have a choice because I already know how they feel like they have no other choice at all, because of the forces which shaped their worldview.
There's nothing voluntary about it for the target audience, and that's the only reason it could ever possibly succeed.
That's a different question with all the laws passed since 9/11 revolving around random people being able to easily get a phone with no ID, no bank account, etc like they are going to the store to get a gallon of milk. The patriot act can die in a fire. If you want to affect change to make smuggling an unrestricted phone to someone in a cult, the patriot act has to go.
No, it's not a different question, it's just looking at the issue from further away than halfway up your nose.
Easy access to other avenues is the first step in digital independence from an authoritarian family. It's the same thing for minors getting access to birth control without ID or parental concent. So long as you gotta have a bank account and show ID to buy a phone, this is going to be a problem.
Okay, so why are you defending the avenue that suckers in people afraid of hellfire and tells them all the others are satanic?
You have no point, nothing of value to say. You just keep circling back to defending this christofascist bullshit. This conversation is over.
I'm not defending it, it is just the reality we face for freedom. It is just their mentality and how they see things vs how the next person sees it or you see it or how I see it. I'm not your enemy here.
And weekly affirmation that what their ingesting is real. You may have a point.