Comment on Xmas at the mega church
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s not just mega churches.
My dad was going to a small little church for years. At some point in a conversation about their church, I asked him what the church does in terms of community service or giving to the less fortunate. His response was “nothing”.
To me, that should be a pretty high priority for organized religion, otherwise it’s just Sunday social hour and free entertainment … at best.
Watching Knives Out 3 triggered me. As a former Catholic, I was hit pretty hard by how the big bad was treating the church.
And thinking about it, yeah, that’s exactly what they are. There are those who run a church like a little kingdom and create cults of personality.
BanMe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Social hour is actually very necessary, not happening, our third spaces are dying and churches are one of them. Not that I’m not glad to a degree, but we need replacements because people come to the church for human connection, and then pick up the bullshit over time.
Hell I’m in the South and I have queer friends that still go to southern baptist churches “because there’s food once a week” and “I get to be around people.”
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Back in the 70s/80s/90s, we had The Mall. If you didn’t have anything else to do, you’d just go to The Mall, and see who was around. If nothing else, you could hang around in the book and record stores, or the food court. Or play games in the arcade. Or just sit on a bench and watch girls.
Now kids just sit home and play video games.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That is one of the most despicable reasons to join a cult. “To be around people”. What about some sports club? Chess-meetings? Hobby-philantropist-gatherings, passionate-juggler-convention?
If I join a thing that is evil, I’m also evil.
And how a queer could even think about joining some cult is beyond me. That’s like a Jew joining the Nazis because there’s people.
Wasn’t it you guys that had this law during the rise of crips/bloods gangs, that if you’d join one of the gangs and someone else committed a felony, you were also guilty of it?
I’d rather be lonely than actively supporting an evil cause.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Who said anything about a cult? Sounds like you got a few assumptions that you should reevaluate.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Nothing to assume, it was just said. I see no reason for reevaluation.