Christian Memes on Facebook

Christian Memes is a Facebook page dedicated to “providing Christians and non-Christians alike with memes that contain no crude humor and are centered around learning and living by the words found in the Bible,” (https://www.facebook.com/MemesForJesus/info). According to the site’s information page, Michael Schaffer of Macon Georgia started the site in 2012. His goal is to provide an alternative to the “profanity and vulgarity” that is rampant on other meme sites and the internet at large. While the site does allow others to submit memes to the Facebook page, Schaffer says he reserves the right to refuse any posts that use foul language, rude comments, and/or arguing, as well as the right to revoke user’s posting privileges. In addition to the Facebook page, Christian Memes has content sites under the name “Memes for Jesus” on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube. Most of the memes seem to be mix of popular meme stock images (i.e. Scumbag Steve), pop culture images (i.e. video game characters, actors) and Christian culture images (i.e. Jesus and the miracle of feeding the multitude) where these images are generally combined have text contextualizing it to the Christian faith.