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?
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Mark Zuckerberg is evil.
The Beast is taking over the Church.
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.
Yes. This is where the dragon and Beast will be spawned
Mark Zuckerberg.. Will no one rid us of this annoying and worthless piece of filth?
Mark of the Beast?
Looks like Mark is the Beast.
Zuckerbert was born in 1984.
bookmark
You mean Suckerbug. Don’t you?
Satanic heresy!
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.
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.
Farcebutt and Big Tech are evil, too.
“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
Why doesn’t he just build twin altars to Moloch and Baal and get it over with?
What an f’ing weirdo.
Apotheosis
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.
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