I was raised in one of those fundamentalist suburban enclaves, and remember bringing a Nietzsche book into my Presbyterian church (that turned out to actually just be a tax haven for rich white assholes in my town) and pulling it out whenever the Hymnals started.
It's widely used alright lol, they cycled through 3 pastors before they found the Ted Cruz looking mother fucker that didn't try to raise a stink.
That one just serviced like 3 or 4 big fish with a lot of other smaller ones just kinda feeding off it. Big one was Deacons writing checks then taking cash out of the collection trays.
I knew shit was weird when the pastor got a $50k raise and they spent $250k on a "new sound system" that never got installed.
I was raised in one of those fundamentalist suburban enclaves, and remember bringing a Nietzsche book into my Presbyterian church (that turned out to actually just be a tax haven for rich white assholes in my town) and pulling it out whenever the Hymnals started.
Weird how that mechanism is not more widely used/known.
It's widely used alright lol, they cycled through 3 pastors before they found the Ted Cruz looking mother fucker that didn't try to raise a stink.
That one just serviced like 3 or 4 big fish with a lot of other smaller ones just kinda feeding off it. Big one was Deacons writing checks then taking cash out of the collection trays.
I knew shit was weird when the pastor got a $50k raise and they spent $250k on a "new sound system" that never got installed.