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Well, RealChristianSingles.com is NOT owned by PentHouse. There's no way that the company that OWNS a website doesn't have some influence on it--whether that's bad or good!

The fact of the matter is...in this day and age, times are changing, how do you reach people now?  As an owner of several social networking sites, from african americans to christian social mediums...but first and foremost a marketer; I don't see this being any different than a site adding a "designed by" for advertisements.  We as Christians canNOT say whom God will used, He did use a Murderer...perhaps if we spent more time on our own lives and our personal set of morals...we would have a lot less time being judgemental...ohh dang, doesn't the bible speak against that as well. 

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I higly suggest you read the following in the book of Ezekiel, since it also applies to these people.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+13-15

If you are a member of their site, its even more important to stay focused. Read Ezekiel 13. And know that any false prophet, shell be "consumed in the midst", when the wall they build crash, it will do on top of their heads, and the midst shell consume them.

But those they deceived, shell all be forgiven their sin. (That they didn't belive in christ).

someone said something about christians shouldn't be using dating sites....  there is a christian dating site called www.equallyyoked.com  but it is not owned by non-believers I am sure.  and of course they charge a lot more money for membership.

I think a big part of the problem is that you can't do much without money so ever person and every organisation, including religious groups needs money.  OK some have huge amounts and some supposedly religious groups seem to have making money as the main objective.  However there are some, hopefully the majority, where getting money is a means to some end, hopefully serving God in some way.  You can't really get upset just because religious organisations want money.  I think BigChurch will be harmfull to Christianity, just because it takes money from Christrians for a big and morally bankrupt business but there may be other problems.

I seriously wonder if the people who run BigChurch understand or care about Christianity.  They have hororscopes on the site!  This is contrary to the Bible!  They have homosexual groups under the same umbrella, also contrary to the Bible (some so-called Christians try to get round this but have to use convoluted black-is-white arguments which make most people's logic circuits throw critical error warnings).  How does BigChurch define Christian?  Will they allow wolves in rather thin sheep's clothing (you can't really blame them for the hard to detect ones) to pray on the real sheep?

I've nothing particularly against on-line dating.  I'd probably have tried it, if it had been around when I was single.  Most people have got to find partners somehow.  Sure, if you're a Christian you should go to church but maybe Mr. or Ms Right doesn't go to the same one or even live near you.

dating markets are simply where it is currently. Whether thats by religion or even by disease, such as 'albino' dating which seems to have worked for some websites.

Anything and everything goes these days!

So, you are surprised and outraged at the fact that church might be associated with business and money-making? Wasn't that always the case?

Catholic church in medieval Europe was wealthier then some of the states through business dealings, and could therefore influence politics in those states. In modern world, a lot of smaller churches and christian sects often indirectly charge their members or brainwash them into donating large parts of their income to the church.

Now someone else has jumped on the bandwagon and everyone is disgusted? I say thisi is pathetic.

"Is this exploiting the faithful or just business as usual?"

it's both... exploiting the faithful IS just business as usual...

Why am I not surprised? Because this IS business as usual, always had been. It never draws the line, it doesn't care where its money comes from, so long as it keeps coming.

And who's to blame? WE are -- we give business our money, no questions asked.  We work for them, not caring what they do so long as we can draw a paycheck and feed our families. In the end, it's OUR not caring where OUR money came from or went to that brought us to this pass -- where religion and big business become partners (haven't they always been, though?).

I wonder that no one has asked the original BigChurch owners why they sold their site to Penthouse in the first place ... and we're back to my previous paragraph.  They didn't care enough to dig deep enough and find out who their end buyer was and/or they just wanted their money, let their members sink or swim on their own.

Que Sera, Sera.

Now after all these years of hearing how the state wants separatism from the church, business decides the church is a great source of revenue and invades. I've lived long enough to see Christmas going from too commercial to now, when people protest not seeing Christmas commercially. Would it be too simple to say: Turn to God? I'm positve that all the answers are there.