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It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household.

Its core function is to produce neighborhood maps and detailed tables of data about people from non-Anglo-European backgrounds, drawn from commercial sources typically used by marketing and data-harvesting firms.

training videos produced by users show the extent to which evangelical groups are using sophisticated ways to target non-Christian communities, with questionable safeguards around security and privacy.

In one instance, he points to the sharable note-taking function and suggests leaving information for each household, such as “Daughter left for college” and “Mother is in the hospital.”

increasingly popular among Christian supremacist groups, prayerwalking calls on believers to wage “violent prayer” (persistently and aggressively channeling emotions of hatred and anger against Satan), engage in “spiritual mapping” (identifying areas where evil is at work, such as the darkness ruling over an abortion clinic, or the “spirit of greed” ruling over Las Vegas), and conduct prayerwalking (roaming the streets in groups, “praying on-site with insight”).

newly arrived refugees might well find a knock on the door from strangers with knowledge of their personal circumstances distressing—and that’s before these surprise visitors even begin to attempt to convert them.

placing people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds on easy-to-access databases is a dangerous road to go down

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[-] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 121 points 3 months ago
[-] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago

So, in theory, The Satanic Temple could make an app to mark all the Christian households then. I wonder if they'd be interested in that.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

What do you mean? That app is already made, it’s the one mentioned in this post.

[-] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I suppose that app of theirs would work both ways 😂 But the temple app could open with a splash page of the Baphomet statue with the children.

[-] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Do you think if the Satanic Temple made a line-by-line copy of their app, but painted it black/red, the Evangelists would cry foul and complain about everything we're complaining about?

What am i saying? Of course they would.

[-] HonorableScythe@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

Imagine how upset they'd be to see their homes marked out in a "Satanic" app with notes like 'has three young children'.

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[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 12 points 3 months ago

I bet they have enough members in the field to have it built for free. Hell, if I was an app dev I would chip in on the project.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 68 points 3 months ago

Interesting.

If they've built an app that can target non-christian demographics, then they've also built an app to target christians.

I wonder if they've made that realization yet.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 11 points 3 months ago

the developer definitely mentioned it, and the management said "that will never happen"

[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

The Satanic Temple be like: "It's free real estate"

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[-] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago

Fucking Christians, they just can’t believe in their fairy tale daddy in the sky and leave the rest of us alone, they have to smear their god like shit everywhere. Religion is a mental illness, it’s long overdue we start treating it that way.

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 62 points 3 months ago

Wow, the Christian app that lets you sort people by religion ALSO lets you sort them by race and ethnicity?

I am shocked. SHOCKED!

Well, not that shocked.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Big brother who art in heaven, surveillance be thy name. Thy data come, recon be done, stored in SQL as it is in heaven. And lead us not into frustration, for thine is Consistent, Available, and Partition tolerant. COMMIT ;

select * from prayer_requests where response = 'yes' ;

0 rows returned
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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Very much creepy and very much on brand with evangelical assholes who prey on the less fortunate.

Still, I suppose it will give me more of an opportunity to tell them to kindly fuck the hell off my property when they ask for the 'nice Asian family that lives here' when my very Italian wife answers the door as they stand there looking very confused.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

That may work at first but if the religio-fascists take over the government, they won't be asking anymore.

[-] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

The fact white supremacists hijacked the Christian religion and is using it to effectively push their ideology is telling. I remember when they tried to take over punk music and were quickly told “ Nazi Punks Fuck Off”. Turns out punks have better morals than Christians. Hilarious.

[-] vala@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago

Turns out punks have better morals than Christians.

I don't think that any reasoning person thought otherwise.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

"Hijacked" implies they weren't a welcomed part of it from the beginning.

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[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Punks have outstanding morals.

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[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

Never seems like a good thing when a religious group starts counting

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

This is going to be real Handy for them the day they try to put us all up against the wall.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

So many people in this comment section not getting it. This is a list of people they will send to the camps. They're preparing for when the fascists take over.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

prayerwalking calls on believers to wage “violent prayer” (persistently and aggressively channeling emotions of hatred and anger against Satan)

In other words first they will use words then move on to more "persuasive" methods when that doesn't work.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago

Of course it's some shit-stain in Florida doing this.

Just Google map search Mapping Center for Evangelism and his home address pops up.

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[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

I had such an apologetic coming up to me. When i told them my name was "'Julia'); DROP TABLE neighborhoods;" they were immediately irate!

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Aw, little Julie tables! I wondered how you turned out after your sister left town. How's the transition coming?

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[-] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

So is it removed from the appatore yet? Or does it need some motivation?

Can it be flagged or something? That could get it removed.

This shit is pretty fucked up.

[-] kewjo@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i reported it as doxing, looks like they're recording names and addresses. maybe those in the EU can raise gdpr concerns?

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

Well, looks like I'll have to start answering the door in my underwear again

[-] thorfin1984@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 3 months ago

Or, you forget the underwear, and they'll wish they forgot to knock on your door!

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago

Time to create a satanic AI

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 18 points 3 months ago

Wow, this is absolutely fucking horrific. I assume they've imported everything from Kiwi Farms incarnation too? Bunch of evil fucks.

I'm kinda sick of all' the evil, actually. I get that it's very popular but maybe it shouldn't be? I'll just live in my own mind until people pull their heads out, I guess 🤷 What could possibly go wrong.

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I sincerely hope that when they come to my door again, I am in the middle of carving up a side of beef, again. Last time some Mormons knocked on my door, I opened the door, and what they saw was a 6'3" blonde Viking with no shirt, a bloody carving knife, and wiping blood off my hands. When I saw who it was I yelled over my shoulder, (to an almost empty apartment,) "Hey guys, you can let the goat go! I just found us a couple of virgins!"

They retreated rather quickly.

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[-] ashley@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 months ago

this sounds so insane that its hard to believe. but then again, its quite easy to believe. shame that our data is used like this :c

[-] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

i’m a christian myself and… god, this is fucking disgusting

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

It's creepy that they are collecting data about us without our knowledge nor consent. And having strangers then telling us private details about ourselves.

I wonder how they would react if we did this to them.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

The crowd of "I have nothing to hide" that also has the highest incidence of minor sexual assault, domestic violence, and infidelity? I think they think they're talking to God who forgives whatever if you just say sorry and say a couple poems

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Damn it. We already have to deal with the Mormons and the JWs periodically bothering us. Now numerous evangelical churches will be doing it too? I wish they'd all just get lost and leave people alone.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 10 points 3 months ago

You misunderstand. This is how they're going to figure out who to send to the concentration camps.

They're crowd sourcing genocide.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Good luck with that in our town lol. We recently passed a town wide ordinance against "door to door salesmen" which would cover this bullshit

Plus, my driveway is 100 yards long, and my dogs are very barky.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 15 points 3 months ago

It's not about door to door missionary work. It's about building a list of enemies to target when Trump takes over

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[-] gregjsmith@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Mormons have been doing this for a while, but not quite at the creepy level as this.

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