Contractual agreements that conflict with Christian belief

A Christian, just like anybody else, can check a box without agreeing to that what the person who drew the box says you agree to when checking the box. As checking the box is not an expression of agreement, but a forced step to get access to a service, there is no legal relevance to the checking of the box.

Some terms of agreement can be utterly meaningless because there is no definition of what "the law" means. Neither is it stated what "doing anything illegal" means. Such vague phrases would never stand up in a Court of Law, unless there was detailed 'small print' exclusion (or inclusion) clauses. As an example, here in Britain various Water companies and the Government are being accused of breaking the law which clearly stipulates that water discharged from the Water plants into rivers and the sea can only be done in "exceptional rainfall" events; that is because effluent is in the untreated discharged water which pollutes the rivers and the sea. But despite an apparently mountainous pile of evidence that various Water companies have violated this legal point time and again, the Government is saying that there are different "interpretations" as to what the law means here!

Now, you ask about contractual agreements that conflict with Christian beliefs. First, different Christians have different views of what would conflict with Christian beliefs. Some have no problem with ticking a box attached to a vague statement about keeping to the law of the land, but would not tick a box to agree with a statement, such as, "I will never write or speak about the God and the Christ of Christianity."

Another point is that hardly anybody knows all the laws or illegalities of the land they are living in. While ignorance of the law is no excuse in a Court of Law, a person may, in all good conscience, have ticked such a general-statement box because they have been law-abiding citizens all their life, and have no intentions of breaking any laws. They would tick such a box with hardly a second's consideration. But the anonymous people who drew up the agreement may have had more particular points in mind that they have not specified (except in mouse-muck small-print exclusion clauses), and which hardly anybody would understand, even if they read them.

Also, you state that "what is legal is not always moral and vice versa, [so] how can a Christian agree to such terms?", but this is to enter into a grey area where individual conscience has to apply. Christians are told in the Bible to obey the ruling authorities, except when those authorities expect them to violate God's laws (Romans 13:1-8). They know that they will answer to God for that, and so we cannot tell others what they should, or should not do with regard to contractual agreements. Christians know that something legal in a country might actually be immoral, but in a Court of Law, it's always what is legal that matters. They could decide, however, that God's moral standards are what they go by.

Finally, governments that are out to control Christianity, with a view to effectively silencing Christians, is another matter. Online platforms are also global, not national, so that throws the whole matter of sticking to the law up in the air. If a Christian's conscience is clear about agreeing to certain terms in order to spread the gospel, or to counteract misinformation and disinformation about Christianity, that is between them and God. If their conscience is troubled, they would not go ahead.

The short answer to your question, "How can a Christian agree to such terms?" is that each individual Christian has to decide which terms they can agree to, and which they cannot.

If I break the law of a country then I will be punishable by the Government of that country. And I accept that as being the rule of law.

Therefore I am fully aware that if I choose to break a rule, I shall be punished.

And I accept that 'law' - that if I break a rule, I can be punished.

And, therefore, I tick the box, as a lawkeeper who accepts the consequences of any future law-breaking I may commit.

And I tick the box in good conscience, before God who made me.

Thus, if I choose to worship my God and the consequence of my worship is that I will be punished, I accept that situation as a law-keeper.

(Or I may prefer to leave such a country and find somewhere else to live.)