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Mark Zuckerberg Is Planting The First Church Of The Metaverse
The Federalist ^ | 8/6/21 | Joe Allen

Posted on 08/23/2021 7:29:09 PM PDT by marshmallow

Virtual idols are the future of false religion. With 3 billion users and zero sense of sacred boundaries, Facebook is poised to lead this revolution.

The Church of Facebook is set to capture the human soul in silicon. On July 25, the New York Times reported that since 2017 the social media giant has quietly cultivated exclusive partnerships with select religious communities. As always, money is involved.

While Facebook’s ultimate goals remain sealed behind non-disclosure agreements, the Times article does hint at things to come: “The company aims to become the virtual home for religious community, and wants churches, mosques, synagogues and others to embed their religious life into its platform, from hosting worship services and socializing more casually to soliciting money.”

“The partnerships reveal how Big Tech and religion are converging,” the Times continues. “Facebook is shaping the future of religious experience itself, as it has done for political and social life.”

In other words, ultra-mod spiritual centers will be blessed by mass data extraction, algorithmic polarization, and censorship of theological “misinformation.”

If Facebook’s history is any guide, every digital prayer will be scooped up and turned into a data point. Livestreamed preachers who deny the sanctity of LGBT lifestyles will be flagged and punished as “extremists.” Best of all, smartphone-addicted congregants can donate their last widow’s mite with the touch of a virtual button. Sounds like a little slice of heaven, doesn’t it?

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Religion & Culture; Religion & Science; Worship
KEYWORDS: church; evil; facebook; newreligion; oneworldreligion; religion; theantichrist; thebeast; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 08/23/2021 7:29:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Mark Zuckerberg is evil.


2 posted on 08/23/2021 7:34:31 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: marshmallow

The Beast is taking over the Church.


3 posted on 08/23/2021 7:35:08 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: marshmallow

Those of us grounded in the Christian faith, with God-given discernment won’t fall for this false idolatry, but many will and already are.


4 posted on 08/23/2021 7:35:35 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: HighSierra5

Yes. This is where the dragon and Beast will be spawned


5 posted on 08/23/2021 7:37:37 PM PDT by madison10 (I AM the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by Me)
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To: marshmallow

Mark Zuckerberg.. Will no one rid us of this annoying and worthless piece of filth?


6 posted on 08/23/2021 7:38:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative.)
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To: marshmallow

Mark of the Beast?

Looks like Mark is the Beast.


7 posted on 08/23/2021 7:42:38 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: marshmallow

Zuckerbert was born in 1984.


8 posted on 08/23/2021 7:43:14 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: marshmallow

bookmark


9 posted on 08/23/2021 7:43:19 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: Beowulf9

You mean Suckerbug. Don’t you?


10 posted on 08/23/2021 7:44:51 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: marshmallow

Satanic heresy!


11 posted on 08/23/2021 7:47:45 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: marshmallow

If that rapper Kayne could flimflam thousands of people to think he had created a real church, I’ve no doubt Zuck could do the same thing, but on a grander scale.

There are legions of people under 50 who are ‘unchurched’.
They may come from families who raised them that way, or the type of parent who ‘let the child decide’ if they wanted to go to church at all.

Many of these folks are looking for some type of spiritual leadership. Many are desperate for something they can depend on besides the material world.
They have aged out of worshiping Gangbangers and Bling.


12 posted on 08/23/2021 7:47:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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Mark Zuckerberg.

What percentage of Lizard DNA does he have?

Or what percentage of Robot is he?

Is not fully human, that’s all I know for sure.


13 posted on 08/23/2021 7:48:11 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Ohh!! This is so exciting. Religion and FaceBook all in one. We live in interesting times. I feel like all of humanity is on the verge of something BIG. This is what it must've felt like in the days of Noah.
14 posted on 08/23/2021 7:48:47 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Biden: "I did it but it's Trumps fault".)
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To: McGavin999

Farcebutt and Big Tech are evil, too.


15 posted on 08/23/2021 7:51:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Priest?”
Henry II

.. . you know .. . it’s kind of cool to have lived during an era that has some AWESOME quotes like that .. . but wouldn’t it be fun to hear someone say to Kameltoe :

“Get thee to a NUNNERY!”
Spaceman


16 posted on 08/23/2021 7:55:13 PM PDT by Spaceman49
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To: marshmallow

Why doesn’t he just build twin altars to Moloch and Baal and get it over with?


17 posted on 08/23/2021 7:55:48 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: marshmallow

What an f’ing weirdo.


18 posted on 08/23/2021 7:58:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: marshmallow

Apotheosis


19 posted on 08/23/2021 7:59:46 PM PDT by BRK
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I am not quite sure what he is trying to do but, for me, church involves going to a house of worship with other believers, both for worship and education. I know religious communities have resorted to using FB live during COVID restrictions, but that is a poor substitute. I got back in-person as soon as I could. I have no interest, unless I become a shut-in, in sitting in front of my computer on a Sunday morning, and I am not interested in any “enhancements” of religious experience through technology, if that is what he has in mind.


20 posted on 08/23/2021 8:02:47 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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