Jesus is Not Welcome at Digg.com

July 16, 2007 by Orlando
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Jesus is not welcome at Digg.com. Any mention of Jesus, God, Son of God, Lord, Savior, or anything related to Jesus is crucified and buried on Digg.

Stories about marijuana, atheism, 911 conspiracies, and hate Bush are welcome additions to the upcoming or front page stories. But if a story about Jesus is posted on Digg it is met with immediate scorn or, more likely, buried as “inaccurate.” Consider some of the more foul-mouthed comments about Jesus on Digg:

I want to f*** Jesus in his A**hole… Then make that bitch suck my c**k! –CrackHeadBob

F*** JESUS GOD IS A C*NT ALLAH SUCKS A FAT C**K! — AssHate

I could go on with a myriad of similar comments but you get the message. Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians but you won’t find any representative articles for Christians on Digg.

Digg claims the following (my underlines):

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web…Because Digg is all about sharing and discovery, there’s a conversation that happens around the content. We’re here to promote that conversation and provide tools for our community to discuss the topics that they’re passionate about.

Of course, that sharing and discovery doesn’t apply to Jesus because Jesus is not welcome at Digg.com.

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April 10, 2009 at 10:42 pm

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Jesus is not welcome at Digg.com. Any mention of Jesus, God, Son of God, Lord, Savior, or anything related to Jesus is crucified and buried on Digg….

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4 Responses to “Jesus is Not Welcome at Digg.com”

Ron Goodwyne says:

July 17, 2007 at 8:11 am

Notice there isn’t even an appropriate category for stories about Jesus, Christianity or anything religious. That ought to clue anyone into the fact that Digg isn’t exactly encouraging those types of submissions.

StumbleUpon-It, on the other hand, has a plethora of categories. Virtually any topic you wish to write about will have an appropriate category.

It may take a while but I think Digg is ultimately destined to follow MySpace down as others do the same job far better. So long as Digg puts their politics ahead of their business model, they will see more and more people leave for better choices. Isn’t free enterprise wonderful?

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Steve says:

April 22, 2008 at 7:11 pm

I already have left. And I encourage every Christian to do the same. Join someplace like GospelShout. It is kind of down right now, but I am reliably posting there, and if more people do, it will be more interesting. We need something like GospelShout.

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Pedro Moore says:

January 2, 2009 at 12:38 am

That is very interesting. I plan on starting a online christian financial lifestyle magazine and I was looking for ways to promote the site. And, I told someone about using digg.com and he stated that,that will be a bad idea. I didn’t want to believe him, so I did some research and discover that it is true. Hence, this article. I also discover reddit.com is another one, they have a tab for ‘atheism’ which kind of implies no christianity.

I checked out gospelshout and spotplex.com(more positive site) and they are both down. Does anyone know of a new site that active today.

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forthardknox says:

January 2, 2009 at 8:14 am

Pedro – You might want to try Twitter, R-igg, and Stumbleupon. Good luck with your new project!

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