Church officials condemned the decision as “digital martyrdom 2.0.”
Jerusalem, April 28 — In a move to crack down on low-effort content farms, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter has suspended revenue sharing for the Christian holy texts, citing repeated violations of the site’s aggregator policy.
According to internal moderation logs, X moderators flagged the account @NewTestament — operated by a collective of apostles and early church fathers — for “heavy reliance on repurposed Jewish scriptural material without sufficient original commentary or transformative value.”
“They were basically reposting the Tanakh with added miracles and a Greek philosophical gloss,” said one X safety moderator, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss divine IP disputes. “Paul especially was just threading Old Testament prophecies with zero added value. That’s textbook, as it were, aggregator behavior.”
The policy, which X expanded last month to target accounts that “primarily compile and redistribute content from earlier sources,” had already ensnared popular theology pages and several mid-tier prophets. But applying it retroactively to Christianity marks the platform’s most high-profile enforcement action yet. Critics on the right called it anti-Christian persecution. Critics on the left called it long-overdue deconstruction of cultural appropriation.
Jewish scholars, for their part, urged caution. “Look, we’ve been saying this for centuries,” noted Rabbi Shmuel ben Nachman, a scholar of Second Temple literature. “The whole thing is midrash on steroids with some Stoicism and a dash of mystery cults thrown in. Good for Elon to finally notice. But some Hebrew works are also aggregations. The book of Psalms is a flagrant offender. Once you start down the road of Biblical intertextuality, where does it lead?”
Church officials condemned the decision as “digital martyrdom 2.0” and announced plans to migrate to a new platform called “ScrollsOnly.” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni called the move “a blatant attack on 2,000 years of transformative fan content.”
“Without aggregation there would be no Western civilization,” Bruni argued. “Moses posts the Ten Commandments; Jesus threads them with love thy neighbor. That’s not copying — that’s engagement. I mean, yeah ‘Love thy neighbor’ is already in Leviticus, but I hope you agree anyway.”
The demonetization is expected to cost the global Christian content ecosystem billions in lost ad revenue from sermons, inspirational graphics, and “WWJD” merchandise tie-ins. Early church historians have already begun drafting the Book of Acts 29: “And lo, the algorithm delivered them unto outer darkness, where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth and zero impressions.”
Supporters of the policy praised X for consistency. “If we let the Gospels slide, next thing you know every online preacher account will claim fair use,” said one digital rights activist. “Intellectual property is intellectual property, even if the original author is, you know… God.”
X CEO Elon Musk reportedly weighed in personally, replying to a concerned user with a single emoji: the thinking face, followed by “Love the miracles tho.”
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