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Facebook has brought more harm to my family in recent history than anything I can recall. Because of it my nephew is getting divorced. My oldest daughter is not speaking to me after I called her out over some questionable posts.

My nephew's lawyer told my sister that in a recent consensus of lawyers, Facebook had played a role in 8 out of 10 divorce cases. Just this week Facebook announced their support of gay rights, stating "They were going to take an aggressive stance against Hate Speach". Thus they basically announced the censorship of christian messages and posts is going to increase.

Therefore "I Believe" it is an agent of satan and his world.

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old comment by Pule Thamex

If you're connected in some way to the Christian mythology, no matter how loosely, then you will have insufficient power and will be unable to combat fiendish devices such as Facebook.

However, there is an extremely powerful skeptical viewpoint that I can heartily recommend to you that will make Facebook completely powerless. Atheism, try it, it gives you powers you can scarcely comprehend. Atheism knocks fundamental cultism into a cocked hat, pulverizes Facebook, makes a mockery of Rapture Ready etc.

Not only that, but atheism endorses love, compassion, tolerance, helping, peace, science, education, humanism, and most positive things. As well, it most often will oppose bigotry, cruelty, intolerance, violence, stupidity, greed, authoritarianism, lying, thuggery, deluding, bullying, distortion and spin, quote-mining, gullibility and most negative things.

Try it. No faith required. No reliance on belief. Just evidential truths. You'll never look back.

old comment by Papabear

"Facebook has brought more harm to my family in recent history than anything I can recall."

Lucky you, but it does seem as though your family must not have much going on.

"Because of it my nephew is getting divorced."

I bet there's more to it than just Facebook.

"My oldest daughter is not speaking to me after I called her out over some questionable posts."

I bet she's got a dozen good reasons not to speak to you.

"My nephew's lawyer told my sister that in a recent consensus of lawyers, Facebook had played a role in 8 out of 10 divorce cases."

I bet you, your sister, and/or the lawyer are making that up. Even if your statement is true, nobody gets divorced SOLELY over Facebook.

"Just this week Facebook announced their support of gay rights, stating "They were going to take an aggressive stance against Hate Speach". Thus they basically announced the censorship of christian messages and posts is going to increase."

So, your family is in turmoil because you can't hate enough on Facebook?

"Therefore "I Believe" it is an agent of satan and his world."

Therefore, I believe you are an overbearing, closed-minded waste of time, space and materials.

old comment by katie5000

"Facebook has brought more harm to my family in recent history than anything I can recall. Because of it my nephew is getting divorced...in a recent consensus of lawyers, Facebook had played a role in 8 out of 10 divorce cases."

What I don't understand, based on this, is why the hell people would use facebook to cheat on their spouses, especially if they're a younger couple. I mean, it would be so easy to find out if your spouse was cheating on you via facebook, especially if you both have accounts. Wouldn't you want to be more discreet about your cheating?

Y'know, sometimes I think that some people think the internet is little more that a giant computer game that has no ramifications in the real world once you shut off the browser. >_>

*sigh* No, you can't get on facebook and say that homosexuals are evil or sick or deluded or whatever. And that's really not that much of an exclusive "Christian" belief, anyway. You're just mad because facebook won't let itself be an outlet for your bigotry. That said, I see general Christian stuff on there all the time.

old comment by Sisyphus

Okay your paranoia is a bit extreme dude.

Did you not think perhaps that it was you being an asshole (via facebook) that drove your daughter away from you?

Perhaps your nephew is getting divorced because he (or is wife) is an idiot who had to boast about his (or her) exploits?

IF facebook does start deleting posts that it deems hate speech I think that would be a bad thing. Not because I think Christians would be persecuted (they wouldn't) but because I think ALL speech should be allowed on the internet. The haters will have the crap kicked out of them (verbally) by non haters. It's always best to let hatefulness out into the open where it can be killed.

old comment by Anon

>>My nephew's lawyer told my sister that in a recent consensus of lawyers, Facebook had played a role in 8 out of 10 divorce cases.<<

Given that number of he-said-she-said's, whatever this supposed lawyer said may have been mangled.

But this statement is provably false.

Data from Wikipedia:

In the US, 40 % - 60 % of new marriages will end in divorce. Most people get married at some point, so say that roughly 1/3 of people in the US will go through a divorce.

Currently, Facebook is used by ~1/3 of the US population, but only about 2/3 of them are of marriageable age (defined as people under age 18).

Conclusion: in the worse possible case, only 60 to 70 % of divorces can be accounted for by Facebook users. More likely, the two are independent or only somewhat correlated, in which case 20 - 35 % of divorces will involve at least one user of Facebook. And I doubt that Facebook is to blame in anything but a small fraction of them.

old comment by Brain_In_A_Jar

Why, in this day and age, are there still scads of people so profoundly stupid that they cannot grasp that information is distinct from the matter that carries it?

Though I have no doubt plenty of relationships have been ruined by unfortunate revelations on facebook, I doubt anyone has broken up over facebook itself. If your fiancée writes you a letter in which she confesses infidelity, do you furiously denounce pens and paper?

The apparatus known as facebook is not the same thing as the data people use it to transmit.

Like this, and all other information, evil also has no tangible form. Satan is a badly expressed concept, not a person.

You're no better than those idiots we see on here who basically think that the only way something can have an intangible quality attributed to it is to be physically inhabited by a demon named after that quality. Have you seen the shit they type, talking about demons who are actually have names like "pokemon" or "masturbation?"

It's all the same thing - they simply cannot comprehend that abstract thoughts can exist inside one's head without something physical existing in the real world for them to sense and cause those sensations.

old comment by LDM

""They were going to take an aggressive stance against Hate Speach". Thus they basically announced the censorship of christian messages and posts is going to increase. "

Many of my family & friends on FB are christian, and post christian messages all the time. They don't post hate speech though, not only do most know that's not tolerated in our circles, but also because they're not hateful people. They mostly post prayer requests for those who are having difficult times, or the christian messages that we were raised on, those of love, peace & inner strength. They're actually refreshing reminders of what being a christian is supposed to be about, and if anything ever does get me back in the fold, it will be those messages of love, not of hate an d hellfire that you fundies keep fapping about.
I've also posted many a message in support of my gay friends & relatives, and gotten many "likes" and favorable comments on them, even from my christian friends & relatives.

I'm not a huge fan of FB, it is evil in many ways, but with a large scattered family, and having moved around alot, it's been a great way to get reconnected with all those I've known & cared about in my life. Just today a cousin in Spain posted a new pic of her three beautiful children. It's great to still feel like when can be a part of each other's lives in this hectic world.

See? That's how things look when you don't see evil in everything.

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