Groan: GodTube

[question everything]

GodTube offers a Christian alternative to YouTube

Wyatt runs GodTube.com, which was rated the fastest-growing online site when it was launched in August. Wyatt says the site aims to "help the church get people back into the pews."

Wyatt started GodTube.com, a Christian video-sharing and social-networking site, and is now the CEO of a company that employs about 20 people and has a distinctly Christian outlook.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/12719202.html

[gateley]

1. I can't even bring myself to check it out. nt

[liberal N proud]

2. It will be like Christian radio...

15 videos that repeat over and over.

[NYCGirl]

3. Good thing there are two porn versions of YouTube to balance that out.

No, I'm not posting the links here.

[ironflange]

12. Two? There's more like six hundred!

Or so I've heard. . . :evilgrin:

[baldguy]

4. And 95% of them will be about the evils of homosexuality

[Moderate Dem]

5. Christians have as much right to the internet as anyone else

Unless the site is overtly political, I don't see the slightest problem with it. Just because some Christians are right wingers doesn't mean that Christianity is a right wing religion.

[Bill McBlueState]

6. I doubt anyone disagrees with you.

Of course Christians have a right to the internet.

[emilyg]

7. Thank you.

[pepperbear]

9. Of course you're right, but doesn't the fact that they feel the need to form there own

video site when they could just as easily upload their videos to existing sites smack of the same faux persecution/isolationist mindset to which they always cling?

edited to add:

It seems to me they created the site because they don't see enough of a Christian presence on the internet, in government, in the media, or in entertainment.

[Ezlivin]

8. Have Christians ever created something unique or do they always adapt others work?

Can someone name one unique thing that originated with Christians? It seems like everything they do is simply a retread of something someone else has already done.

(Disclaimer: I'm an ex-fundamentalist minister.)

[question everything]

10. They were going to generate "their own" version of Wikipedia, too

perhaps did.

But I can see what you mean. If their teaching is so right and so encompassing, why, then, do they feel the need to battle YouTube and Wikipedia? Is it because their teaching is not convincing enough that their students feel the need to dip their toes in the general culture and, gasp, may even decide that they like it?

This, by the way, is true for every religion, not just Christianity.

Why do Muslim women have to cover their bodies from head to toe? If the men cannot control themselves, then this is their problem.

[Ezlivin]

11. Yeah, they already cloned Wiki and "blessed" it

I used to ask prospective missionaries why it was so important to go to other countries to "spread the Gospel" when there was so much work to be in our own inner cities. It should be easier: Less distance to travel and no language barriers. They really had no good answer.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Maybe burning witches at the stake?

[knitter4democracy]

15. Considering it's a religion that came out of another religion, that makes sense.

Priest vestments are based on the vestments priests wore in the Temple. The tones we use in the Orthodox Church are some of the same ones used in Jewish worship. I can practically sing along (though it would be in Greek). Icons are based on the artwork done in the Roman Empire at the time, and prayer beads have been used in various religions for millenia. We use our prayer ropes for different prayers, but it's the same idea--a tangible thing to hold to keep track of where you are in your repetitions.

Stained glass really got off the ground in church windows, but I'm sure someone knowing more about art history could help with where and how that originated. You could argue that Galileo and other early scientists wouldn't have done their work without the Church wanting to know more about the stars and their paths.

The reality is, since we came from Judaism, we started off borrowing from others. That's just kept on going.

[Poiuyt]

14. I wonder if they're going to post that cartoon about Mormonism?

[Bigmack]

16. Sooo.... I suppose Xian porn is ....

out of the question.

"Hot Mama does it on her knees!"

"MILPs go wild!" (Mothers I'd like to pray with.)