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Related: About this forumWhy More Religious Singles Are Searching for Love Online
April 11, 2013 at 3:38 PM EDT
By: Cindy Huang
Jen Spencer had the jitters before she met up with her date Kenneth at an amusement park in the summer of 2012. It was a first date, but they had been talking for months.
Jen Spencer's profile picture on Christian Mingle, an online dating website for Christians. Courtesy of Jen Spencer.
"It was exciting and relieving," said Spencer. "Once the first minute you meet face-to-face passes, it's like 'I can breath again.'"
The two met on ChristianMingle, an online dating website for Christians. The site has gained 5 million new users in the last two years.
Even though the couple didn't last past the summer, Spencer, 32, was nevertheless grateful to have met a like-minded man who shared her passion for the Christian faith.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/04/why-singles-are-going-to-religious-online-dating-in-a-fractured-dating-market.html
For the life of me, I don't understand why they don't subscribe to the DU Religion Group. I've always found it to be a cozy, romantic place.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)... they surely won't find God.
rug
(82,333 posts)Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
longship
(40,416 posts)Myself, I'm surprised that nobody's sued Christian Mingle for failing to fulfill that claim. I would love to be in court when the judge tells them that they can no longer make that claim. Of course it'd be a class action suit.
Christian Mingle... smarmy outfit.
rug
(82,333 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)That's where I'd go for a date match. First hot date picketing some poor person's funeral.
rug
(82,333 posts)MellowDem
(5,018 posts)is a disgusting lie, probably even heretical by some Christians. I don't know why they can't just say "meet people with your same religion", which is all it is actually doing, rather than saying that somehow, by paying for a website, God will help you find the one.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Hahahaha!
"Hey Baby, let's say you and me critique some theological arguments on the internet."