FYI Grand Rapids is the dark heart of US Calvinism and the Reformed movement, which anecdotally has grown significantly within the US Protestantism over the last 20 or so years (grown via cannibalizing other sects, I mean). The idea that “people get whatever they deserve in this life then hell in the next” is right up their alley.
So I don't know shit about religion but I recently moved back to the small town I grew up in which was always on the decline... and there seem to be more and fancier churches than when I left. Where are these people getting money to build huge expensive churches when supposedly church attendance is at an all time now?
Can confirm, have lived there. Went to an indoctrination cult camp there as a kid. Dark heart is putting it mildly. Homeless folks need to have some statement about "willing to work" in there panhandling signs if they want money. So many people there have work so engrained in their minds it's insane.
One of them grew up there raised by evangelicals so it’s just mentioned frequently, especially in the Whit’s Endless Summer series where they talk about Adventures in Odyssey, an evangelical children’s radio show
FYI Grand Rapids is the dark heart of US Calvinism and the Reformed movement, which anecdotally has grown significantly within the US Protestantism over the last 20 or so years (grown via cannibalizing other sects, I mean). The idea that “people get whatever they deserve in this life then hell in the next” is right up their alley.
So I don't know shit about religion but I recently moved back to the small town I grew up in which was always on the decline... and there seem to be more and fancier churches than when I left. Where are these people getting money to build huge expensive churches when supposedly church attendance is at an all time now?
Can confirm, have lived there. Went to an indoctrination cult camp there as a kid. Dark heart is putting it mildly. Homeless folks need to have some statement about "willing to work" in there panhandling signs if they want money. So many people there have work so engrained in their minds it's insane.
I visited a female friend at Clavin and had to sign a document saying I wouldn’t be alone with her for more then half an hour.
Boy they sure do think you've got some stamina!
She snuck her Bf in like every other day because she was based like that. Currently works as a social worker in Kentucky God bless her soul.
Listen to Worst of All Possible Worlds to hear more hatred of evangelism, Calvinism, and Grand Rapids, MI.
What episode do they cover GR in?
One of them grew up there raised by evangelicals so it’s just mentioned frequently, especially in the Whit’s Endless Summer series where they talk about Adventures in Odyssey, an evangelical children’s radio show