Those religious morons are now even spreading their "knowledge" on Facebook now. I respect individual rights, but promoting Religion on Facebook is just unacceptable. Just today, they've been sponsored and I got a post from them.
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https://www.facebook.com/OnTract1/?hc_ref=ADS&fref=nf&ft%5Btn%5D=kC&ft%5...
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They are non-profit, but the information about them says:
On-Tract.com's purpose is to provide resources in multiple languages to followers of Jesus Christ that will allow them to reach others with the good news of Jesus. We also use a variety of methods to introduce people to Jesus who do not yet follow Him.
I don't like blocking people's rights, but Facebook is a social website, where people share their information, friendships and even Companies try to spread their products. But Religion shouldn't be part of Facebook in any way.
Aftermath Thoughts -
Well, looking at it on a hindsight, it does not violate any laws. Well, sometimes I really seem to forget that some things don't go always my way, and the part where Facebook is a company. I've always found it kind of not right including the promotion of Religion in Facebook, I mean there are some many religious websites out there like our non-religious website. There are also Atheist sites in Facebook now that I remember, and I've wondered whether both parties religious and non-religious would agree not to take part in Facebook... Well, I'll end the discussion here.
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FB is in the business of making money for its stockholders. They are not obligated to institute a separation between themselves and religions sponsors. If this sponsor is providing income, they are going to take it. No laws are being violated. The users of the site do not get to directly dictate with whom FB contracts. You get to choose to remain active and ignore that sponsor or leave. That is the way the public lets business know its preferences. Do I like religious sponsors, no. But I also understand I don't get to be the dictator about it.
Well, looking at it on a hindsight, it does not violate any laws. Well, sometimes I really seem to forget that some things don't go always my way, and the part where Facebook is a company. I've always found it kind of not right including the promotion of Religion in Facebook, I mean there are some many religious websites out there like our non-religious website. There are also Atheist sites in Facebook now that I remember, and I've wondered whether both parties religious and non-religious would agree not to take part in Facebook.
Hi, Endi. I think you'd be surprised at how normal this looks to someone in the US. This and dirt are equally common around here.
I agree with your exasperation but I disagree with you all the same. Here is why. The ability to freely advocate one's thoughts into the marketplace of ideas is central to our rights as autonomous beings. It has horrifying consequences and awe inspiring, beautiful consequences, so I realize the downside of free expression of ideas. But it was the cornerstone of the Enlightenment. Grecian rationality depended on it. Socrates was killed for freely sharing ideas about reason. Galileo was subjected to the Inquisition for freely sharing ideas about the heliocentric model. Dr. Robert J. Openheimer was shunned by the US Goverment and had his security clearance revoked for freely sharing ideas about the danger of nuclear armament after having ushered the nuclear age into reality. We must not join those who extinguish ideas from the public discourse.
Religion is poisonous to society and we rightly want it stopped, but to deny individuals the right to freely share their ideas is no way to stop it. The facts and reason are on the side of atheistic rationalists. If the ability to freely argue is lost, WE are the ones who will be harmed the most. We require the open exchange of ideas. Religion benefits most from institutional ignorance that results from restricted speech.
Facebook has become the, or at least a, communal platform for the exchange of ideas in our societies. Private entities are not bound by constitutionally protected free speech laws, so guidelines and codes of conduct are appropriate. I am not saying that Facebook is legally required to do as I suggest. But I am saying that employing restrictions on religious speech will hurt rationalists with the best arguments more than religionists with their dogmatic nonsense. As much as we dislike it, my position is that we must meet religious thought on the field of ideas and defeat it, not censor it.
I already understood, I wrote my aftermath thoughts on the previous comment. Plus, thinking it again, Facebook does really help us when Fanatical coo-coo's post outrageous comments, it helps clarify the dementia of theism as a whole.
So what's their good news I don't get it.
They have the same right to free speech as anyone else. unfriend them