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“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” 2nd Corinthians 6:14 (NIV version)

Back in the good old dot-com-days, before Lycos bought up Matchmaker.com and tried to squeeze it for more profits: a bright young MBA grad named Sam was truly inspired by the quality of christian.matchmaker.com—Yes, in 1999 Sam was so inspired that he started ChristianCafe.com which now has over 100,000 Christian members. The quality of christian.matchmaker.com has declined since 1999 and the quality of ChristianCafe just keeps getting better.

Based on the 2 Corinthians 6:14 bible verse above, MatchMaker.com is a good example of a bad trend on the Internet of non-Christian dating services who try to cash in on the fact that Christians are commanded by God not to “be yoked together with unbelievers” in business, dating or marriage! If you also read first Corinthians chapter six, you will see that being unequally yoked with a non-Christian spouse is acceptable only if one of the two non-Christian spouses got saved after the marriage began. We are not talking about that. And we are not just picking on MatchMaker because there are 1000s of non-Christian dating services that advertise to Christians. Here are some of the bigger ones:

Match.com is an excellent, very well run system from a technology point of view. It is owned by Match.com, L. P. in Richardson, Texas. With their partnerships with AOL and other large websites you are certain to find some Christians among the 8,000,000+ overall members. Ultimately, using this non-Christian owned dating service that advertises to Christians is between you and your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ whose love abounds forever! If for whatever reason you absolutely do not want to use a Christian-owned and operated dating service like ChristianCafe, SCN, CSC, or eHarmony well then, using Match.com or Yahoo! Personals is the obvious choice. Simply because of their huge selection of 8,000,000+ overall members, some of which are likely to actually be Christians.

Yahoo! Personals is an excellent, very well run system from a technology point of view. It is owned by search directory, Yahoo! Inc. in Sunnyvale, California. Large secular databases tend to reflect the overall makeup of society as a whole. You are likely to find some Christians among the 8,000,000+ overall members of Yahoo! Personals. The question is do you want to do business with Yahoo!, which has had a reputation for [promoting-THEpornINDUSTRY]. Since news stories like this one published back in 2001, Yahoo! has supposedly attempted to clean up their directory after being “called on the carpet” by the media and angry stockowners for having so [MUCH-pornCONTENT] in the Yahoo! search directory. Supposedly less revenue now comes from [promotingTHEpornINDUSTRY] than it did prior to that embarrassing Yahoo! share holders meeting a few years back. On a personal note, recently one of our editors was innocently showing his 1-year-old some pictures of dogs listed on Yahoo. He typed “doggy photos” into the Yahoo! search box, and up came four small yet nonetheless [DISGUSTING pornoPHOTOS] at the top of the Yahoo! page. Right there for any kids to see. Ultimately, using this non-christian owned dating service that advertises to Christians is between you and your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

It would be very difficult for a secular company like Yahoo! to reflect any morality other than the overall low level of morality of the society in which we live here in America, and the world, for that matter. In a perfect world, Yahoo! would be a wonderful kid-friendly search directory, deriving absolutely no revenue whatsoever from [pornIMORALITYdepravity], but this is not a perfect world. If it were a perfect world, then Christ would have died on the cross for nothing. It becomes a personal choice of each Christian whether to do business with companies who promote immorality. We Christians are to be “in the world, but not of the world.” As stated before, ultimately, using this non-christian owned dating service that advertises to Christians is between you and your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ whose love abounds forever!

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AmericanSingles.com owned by Spark Networks PLC (formerly MatchNet) in Beverly Hills, California contains at least 2,000,000+ members of which one can find Christians listed. Also, Spark Networks PLC runs non-Christian owned sites like ChristianMingle, a.k.a. Relationships.com, and many others. Ultimately, using this non-Christian owned dating service that advertises to Christians is between you and your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ whose love abounds forever!

Great-Expectations.net was apparently run by an Illinois-based company called Proceed Interactive, but is now run by Great Expectations PLC based in Houston, Texas. Ultimately, using this non-Christian owned dating service that advertises to Christians is between you and your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ whose love abounds forever!

And the list goes on, and on, too numerous to list any more of them…

SPIRITUAL COUNTERFEITS:

[BigChurch.com] has about 350,000 members, however, most likely not all of them are Christians since they also advertise to non-Christians and are owned by a Palo Alto, California company called Friend Finder Network, which also owns [swingers-SEXporn-site] Adult Friend Finder. The BigChurch system is often slow. Ultimately, using this non-Christian owned dating service that advertises to Christians is between you and your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

It would be very difficult for a secular company like Friend Finder Network to reflect any morality other than the overall low level of morality of the society in which we live here in America, and the world, for that matter. In a perfect world, Friend Finder Network would be a wonderful Christian company, deriving absolutely no revenue whatsoever from [porno-swingers-DEPRAVITYorIMORALITY], but this is not a perfect world. If it were a perfect world, then Christ would have died on the cross for nothing. It becomes a personal choice of each Christian whether to do business with companies who promote immorality. We are to be “in the world, but not of the world.” As stated before, ultimately, using this non-christian owned dating service that advertises to Christians is between you and your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ whose love abounds forever! There is an entire Christian website devoted to exposing the truth about BigChurch.com being owned by [thePORNcompany:AdultFriendFinder]: Visit bigchurchdating.info for more details on BigChurch.

SoulMatch.com (owned by Belief Net promotes the concept of “One mixed—or mixed up—religion fits all,” combining eastern and western religions with humanism.

* Note: that these estimates of membership size vary

** Note: site ownership based on domain register