What I found to be common in nearly all religions web pages, was the large number of dating banners, adds which targeted the possible visitors. Not that I am against people finding each other by this means of communication, but the presence of something as 'dating websites' which are being associated mostly by commercial companies or special networking websites, are found on the pages of these, traditional networks.
Some examples taken from the sites directly:
(Eharmony is taken from the http://www.christianitytoday.com website.)
the Jewish one has almost neutral aesthetics, it could be any religious or ethnics groups add:
It is quite striking, that couples are only featured on the christians and catholic one, the others are despiting the subject of desire. Oddly enough, there is almost no religious symbols in the adds, other then the muslima one, with the trademark head scarf and the crescent moon. The pink heart in brown field is even more surprising, since I can`t remember it on any catholic imaginary.
The tagline, join free is really funny on the Jewish one, sounds like another traditional Jewish joke?
It seems, that `secular`, atheist, worldly dating sites has absolutely no difference with these ones, other than you don`t have to fill out the preferred religion question in these ones.
By this regard, these could have been any subcultures dating site, from emo to gun freaks.
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