Xmas at the mega church

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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.”

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For-profit hospitals.

  For-profit schools.

  For-profit prisons.

  For-profit churches.

  When will Americans realise there’s something wrong?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When it stops being profitable to pretend that there isn’t.

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• zd9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I always thought The Righteous Gemstones was a great show but purposefully overly ridiculous. I guess they were right on the nose.

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• athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like half of American churches could be wiped out if people just had some other live entertainment they could afford on the weekends.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you learn about what went on during the Great Awakening, you can see that there was a lot of competition between different churches and no government regulation. For the entrepreneuial pastor, they could slightly change the gospel and church services to target a congregation of their choosing.

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  • CyanideShotInjection@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh but you have to pay to attend this kind of show and it’s super expensive, like easily 200$. It is a matter of preference for them, not affordability.

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• MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Individual Christians are okay, but I don’t approve of their immoral lifestyles.

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• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So inconceivably many mentally challenged people that join those “mega churches”…it’s beyond me. Why? What is wrong with muricans?

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  • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everything is business, everything is entertainment, everything is about money.

    There is still real Christianity in the US, but this isn’t it. I recently read about someone asking for help from various churches, mosques and temples, and everybody offered help, except the churches. The churches that did help were predominantly black.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If this is how most Christians behave, then I’m sorry to inform you this is real Christianity.

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As someone raised Catholic my first visit to a Christian church looked wild.

  Padded pews I can hang with. Drums? Electric guitars? Blasphemy I tell ya

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also “we don’t like traditional Church buildings with beautiful architecture, we want to save money”

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  self-proclaimed Christians

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• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh no someone is celebrating, get em!

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s celebrating and then there’s spending millions on pageantry as the huddled masses starve and are brutalized by the fascist demagogues you’ve helped seize power.

    This is the latter.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol wut.

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