theiss-explanation we're never getting change outside of third worldism bruh

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  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    I grew up northeast catholic so those were basically the only churches I knew. When i was maybe 9 or 10 some family member had a christening for their kid or something. So we drove our asses out to bumfuck PA and we get to their church and its like a walmart with a vaulted ceiling. we get in and i'm looking around and I see these huge screens, like 4 or 5 set up across the front where there was a massive stage that looked like it was for performances.

    Little me had absolutely zero theory, basically all my politics up to that point was captain planet, lil bush, and mind of mencia. I somehow still remember feeling really grossed out, thinking "this place doesn't really feel all that Jesus-y to me, jesus doesn't use televisions and stage lighting" I don't even know if it could be considered a mega church but it felt like it really wanted to be one.

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Yea, that kind of thing is the closest I've been to a mega church. My sister's church (not sure on the exact flavour of protestant but not the anabaptism I was raised in) has the screens, Christian Rock Band™, and the knockoff Starbucks in the lobby that me and my dad clowned on (Jesus would have run them out with a whip...). If I even go somewhere in America with a megachurch I think I have to attend just to see first hand how the American Religion