A new Christian phone network which blocks porn and LGBTQ+ content from users just launched.
The network, Radiant Mobile, creates “an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” explains Radiant Mobile’s founder, Paul Fisher.
The network breaks things down into more than 100 categories, giving individuals full control over what they see and have access to - including everything from violent content, video games, and even Satanism. Users can toggle categories on and off, though pornographic content is blocked at the network level and cannot be turned on - even for adults.
Radiant leadership are banking on the idea that families … But is there a market for a $30 monthly fee to see less of the internet?
Is There a Market For This?
Radiant is partnered with Israeli cybersecurity company Allot, which breaks the internet up into categories for the app. They purchase bandwidth from T-Mobile cell towers, though T-Mobile representatives confirmed they do not have a direct relationship with Radiant.
The network is part of a wider push of Christians trying to hold themselves accountable to a higher standard online. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made headlines a few years ago for his use of the app Covenant Eyes, which tracks users’ internet habits to stop them from viewing pornography. Users of that app can pick an “accountability partner” - in Mike Johnson’s case, his son - who will get a notification any time their partner views material the app deems objectionable.
But evangelical-oriented phone networks are becoming a surprisingly crowded field. There’s Liberty Mobile, Patriot Mobile, PureTalk, Charity Mobile - all of which tailor their user experience towards an audience of religious conservatives.
Fisher is betting the market hasn’t reached saturation - and he says he’s got God on his side. “God is talking to me,” he says. “Do something in the faith-based industry.”
He’s got some stiff competition. President Trump recently launched his own network, Trump Mobile.
Related: Does Donald Trump Think He's Jesus Christ?
404: No Nuance Found
As it stands, Fisher has broad control over what content is and isn’t approved on Radiant. He uses the example of yale.edu, which is categorized as an education site and not blocked. “But they have a subsection of one of their websites that’s totally focused on, you know, trans equality,” he points out, referencing lgbtq.yale.edu. That domain? Blocked. “If we see [the LGBTQ content] on the front pages consistently of Yale University, we’ll block them too,” he warns.
It’s the kind of nuance that Radiant doesn’t seem interested in broaching, preferring instead a sort of sledgehammer approach to content they deem objectionable, which, as you might imagine, could leave the internet feeling like a barren wasteland.
That’s why Radiant is replacing all those newly non-existent websites with AI-generated Bible games and videos, including Bible trivia and shorts based on stories like Noah’s Ark and Adam and Eve.
Whether users are willing to pay $30 per month to see AI-generated Noah build his ark instead of their own Instagram feed remains to be seen.
What are your thoughts? Will this “Jesus-centric” phone plan find an audience?
55 comments
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Ari Joseph Bertine
How does one indoctrinate children into something that one is either born into or isn't?
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Leslie A. Hulberg Née Tomasura
I don’t understand all the discrimination and hatefulness against others while hiding behind your faith. It’s wrong. “Love thy neighbor as you love thy self.” Don’t claim mistreatment and abuse in the name of God. If you remember correctly, God made man and woman. Are you saying that God made a mistake? Just asking.
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Leslie A. Hulberg Née Tomasura
I don’t understand all the discrimination and hatefulness against others while hiding behind your faith. It’s wrong. “Love thy neighbor as you love thy self.” Don’t claim mistreatment and abuse in the name of God. If you remember correctly, God made man and woman. Are you saying that God made a mistake? Just asking.
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Gary Greenwood
No🤬No, it's stupid!
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Rev. BH
Always "great" to have more AI programs take over human decision making.
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JT Sunrise
The sales pitch probably sounds good to a lot of MAGA-type Christians: a “Jesus-centric” phone that blocks porn and LGBTQ stuff. Protect the kids, right? Guard your heart like Proverbs says. That intent sounds righteous on the surface. But look at what it actually does and who it serves. It doesn’t just block porn. It blocks whole groups of people and information, then sells you back AI Bible stories and sanitized cartoons for $30 a month. The outcome is a safe little bubble that creates more fear, division, and fake holiness. It lets people feel morally superior without doing the hard heart work. That’s not protection — that’s control dressed up as faith. Now measure it against Jesus Himself: Jesus didn’t build walls or call for boycotts against sinners. He sat and ate with them. He touched lepers. When the religious crowd wanted to stone the woman caught in adultery, Jesus stopped it cold and said only the sinless person could throw the first stone. Then He showed her mercy and told her to sin no more. Jesus ripped into the religious leaders hardest — the ones who looked clean on the outside but were full of pride, greed, and power games on the inside. He called them hypocrites and whitewashed tombs (Matthew 23). Real purity, He said, comes from the heart, not from external rules or filters. This “Jesus-centric” network, pushed hard in certain nationalist circles, looks a lot like the fake piety Jesus warned about. It’s more white Christian nationalism wearing a cross while ignoring how Jesus actually lived — crossing boundaries, showing mercy, and judging the heart instead of building bigger barriers. You can choose this service if you want. But don’t call it following Jesus if it’s really about fear, control, and keeping certain people out. That’s not the Gospel. That’s just politics wearing a Jesus mask. Real faith stands in the real world with open eyes, not hiding behind corporate filters. Guard your own heart. Love your neighbor — even the ones the filters want to block. Rev. JT Sunrise
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Steven Ferrell
This is a GREAT idea and will allow parents to set it up on their kids phones and help prevent the alphabet group from indoctrinating their children.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
How does one indoctrinate children into something that one is either born into or isn't?
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Michael Hunt
Why is it fine to indoctrinate children into believing the story of Christ but it's a horrible sin to tell children that queer people exist? We know for a fact that queer people exist but there's zero evidence to support the Bible being wholly historical fact.
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Roy S. Thorpe
Well, having a phone system based any way is fine as long as you talk among your unenlightened selves and not force your beliefs on anyone! Have at it! The dummies are taking over the world! Dark ages return!
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Alexander Clarke
Bible thumpers are insufferable. This is all the more reason everyone should join and support the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Religion is the greatest scam of all time.
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Rev. Kev
As long as it's a voluntary choice for people and they willingly choose it on their own, I don't really care. What matters more is exactly what the content will teach people to DO in daily life. Will it be a source for more hate and division in the U.S. or simply a benign alternative for some folks?
I'd prefer it be the latter. But, seeing what passes for much of Christianity in the U.S. these days I get the sinking feeling it will be the former. The so-called "higher standard" they wish to pursue is often less about being more empathetic and caring of others and more about vilifying "other". 😢
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JT of the plains
I think the market might show if this is viable or not. And if it helps parents keep age-inappropriate things away from kids, good. But just give your kid a flip phone, and not a smart phone is a cheaper and maybe better solution. To me, repentance from sin is not the inability to access something, but the choice to not get involved in sin, even if that is available. I do wish more Christians took seriously the heterosexual adultery and sexual deviance of leaders in churches and in government.
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Ralph F. Stoppello
I feel Radiant Mobile, in creating its so-called "Jesus-centric environment," is another example of blurring the lines between right & wrong with different human issues. It is my deepest belief that all spiritual teachings no matter what your faith is, all try to guide humans to be kind, caring & good. It is humans that twist, turn & manipulate doctrine for selfish means. In all due respect, it never surprises me how hate, harm & discrimination uses our faith to weaponize everything that is good about spirituality. My Faith allows me to take everything that is righteous, decent & good to be the best version of myself that I can be. On this big, beautiful & blue spinning planet, it is my obligation & responsibility in the name of the Lord, to be respectful of others as well as to foster the best from myself and those around me.
"It is only when we laid down the sword of hate, can we reach out our hand in friendship & empathy towards others."
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J.M. Pierce
Great, just another thing to add by the coffee shop and the bookstore. At the very least they will have "local reps" pushing the service in the Sunday school classes and small groups. The prosperity doctrine at its finest.
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Rev. B.D. Rees
It's funny and sad at the same time. Whenever the so-called Christians think of porn, they don't go after the ADULTERER, or the S & M 'ers, NO indeed, they go right to the LGBTQ+ card..... When they have to spew their rightous hate on someone they immediately say it's caused because of the Gay and Lesbian community!!, NOT because they themselves preach harmony on Sunday and then on Monday get caught getting their d--k sucked behind some building in downtown Righteousville!! That analogy may be a little harsh but, none the less true..... Why not have a phone service to spread their Hate and Bigotry with. It's not like they haven't been doing it from the pulpit for the last 2000 years!! They AREN'T trying to protect their children from the evils of porn, or any other evil that life throws at them. All they have to do is send their precious children out into the world to go to school or live life as a real human being and they will get exposed to these things!! LIKE IT OR NOT!! God never promised us a rose garden when we lived as Humans, instead he gave us a brain to think with and a concience to know right from wrong in our hearts. The ones who are the worst offenders are unfortunately those who preach the pious attitudes and teach HATE and BIGOTRY every Sunday from a pulpit!!
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Brandy Pinkerton
Exactly!!!!
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Br. Joshua
"Radiant is partnered with Israeli cybersecurity company..."
lol nope.
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Lillian Sanchez
Family, The Almighty who created the world and everything in it will not be mocked. Be careful of what you say because you will be held to account for your words.
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Robert Gagnon
You never know. There may be some people out there that actually don't watch porn and may be interested in not exposing their kids to it.
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Rev. Matthew Mastrogiovanni
Maybe they should actually be parents and monitor their children's activities.
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Jay Gibs
It sounds like they are. They probably don’t expose them to the fascist left or the fascist rainbow coalition that is the lgbwhatever mafia.
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Michael Hunt
If you think the left and LGBTQ community is fascist, you don't understand the definition of fascism.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
None of them do. Nor do they remember how dictionaries work.
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James Richard Munro
Well, Porn is a four-letter word. And as far as the LGBTQ are concerned, I sure wouldn't want my grandchildren to have excess to such bovine excrement. More power to the new network. Pastor Jim.
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Rev. Matthew Mastrogiovanni
Jim, LGBTQ folk don't want your grandchildren to have access to bovine excrement either.
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Douglas Robert Spindler
Christians sure as heaven aren't going to buy it. They love their porn.
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Colleen McAllister
Just another way to make money by appealing to the lowest denominator. Real Cristians don't need this kind of oversight. We answer to God not to a phone service.
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Sir Lionheart
But a phone service is real, Colleen. We can actually talk into a phone, and the person on the other end answers us back. We don’t have to pretend someone is listening to us, they actually do, and they reply. How novel is that?
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Rev. BH
Lion - uh, what?
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Sir Lionheart
Notice how a real person is responding back to your comment, just like one would do on a phone call, but you won’t get that from any deity. You can talk to these hidden deities as much as you like, and convince yourself that they are replying back to you in your head, but in reality, no one is there.
Thank you for your comment seeking for an explanation.
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Reverend Paula Copp
Sigh… why are we spending time on mobile phone services when we could be talking about orange shitler and the pope…
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Douglas Robert Spindler
Sex (porn) sells and Christians are the biggest consumers of it.
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Sir Lionheart
That’s a terrible thing to say about God. I think God gets his orange glow from the way mankind likes to portray him when they paint pictures of how they think he looks and shines.
Come to think of it, it’s interesting that our President is also now taking on a sort of orange glow. Have you noticed that? It’s possibly because he is starting to take on a god-like sainthood status getting our country back in shape after the woke mess left by those very silly liberals.
The Church of St Donald has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? 🤭
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Rev. Matthew Mastrogiovanni
Sir Lionheart ya know, you're right. Trump and the god of Abraham are both megalomaniacal, misogynistic, narcissistic, vain, jealous and destroy peoples lives without a second thought. They belong together.
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Sir Lionheart
That is too funny, it made me laugh out loud. 😂
Thank you for your comment. 🤗
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Rev Ned
Donnold does satisfy most, if not all, of the Antichrist prophecies of the Bible. Golden idols etc..
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Sir Lionheart
Yes, yes, of course Ned, and if you look closely enough you might be able to find something that correlates within the Book of Mormon, Quran, and even Harry Potter books to add to your confirmation bias of your disdain for our wonderful President that is making America great again.
Could the Antichrist be the Liberal left woke mob? I bet I can find that in the Bible somewhere in Songs of Solomon. 🤭
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ServantOfJudgement
Ned,
There are no golden idols ever referenced anywhere in any version or translation to the Antichrist especially as a requirement. Try to at least know what you're talking about.
Although Obama is not the antichrist (too dumb) he was a closer fit, still, not even close. Trump is most likely a punishment for the woke hive mind and one world maniacs while being a reward for hard working citizens that have been getting beaten down. God will usually double or triple down on stuff he does. He's an effective and efficient fellow.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
Having to choose between gasoline to get you to work or buying meat to grill out on Memorial Day is a heck of a reward.
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Rev Ned
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Jay Gibs
Rent free in your simple mind.
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Sir Lionheart
I wonder if they will restrict its members from reading those parts in the Bible that are very naughty, like the incestuous stories, which will of course include Adam and Eve’s family lineage, and the BDSM stories in Exodus where God condoned beating slaves? I wonder if that was for his pleasure? 😜
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Rev. Matthew Mastrogiovanni
How about Ezekiel 23:20-22
20 She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. 21 And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.
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Sir Lionheart
You are so right….and parents buy this book for their children to read. 🤷
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Patricia Ann Gross
Song of Solomon is probably omitted. It's a love story riddled with porn.
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Rev. Miche'al Yosef Dixon
That's like plugging the damn with your finger after the damn has started to crumble.🤪😜🤯 Minister telling the children about Yeshua (Jesus) and got to the Crucifixion and burial asked, "Can you tell me what happened next?" Sally raised her hand, "Jesus came back as a zombie and ate the Romans brains." AI telling of Jesus. - my nephew 13 years old.
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Barbara Harris
Oh my. That brought a laugh this morning. Thank you!
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Rev Ned
^Also, the story of Noah and the Ark, which happens to be a story of the most complete genocide ever, makes such great children’s story.^
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Rev Ned
I’m sure Christofascists will love it.
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Douglas Robert Spindler
No they wont, they are the biggest consumer of porn.
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ServantOfJudgement
Human males are the largest consumers of pornography. All other factors are irrelevant.
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Rev. Matthew Mastrogiovanni
Hate and censorship, the hallmark of Christianity.
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ServantOfJudgement
Right, everyone should watch porn, especially the ones who don't want to....
Shame on those Christians
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Ari Joseph Bertine
Wait...your phone provider just suddenly pops porn in front of you at random??!
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"Radiant is partnered with Israeli cyber-security company Allot." They are finding every way they can to surveil us. Of course Israel is involved. They own the US.