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Murka don’t needem none of that Woke Communist Fake News Christianity. Jesus was a ripped alpha male who beat up on weaklings for fun, and told the poors to get a job!
Ok I thought they were hanging Ronald McDonald in effigy
ronald is finally ascending to heaven. looks more like marcel marceau the mime, a temu version.
And somehow Palpatine returned.
If you need pyrotechnics to sell compassion, maybe the priorities are backwards.
When American Christians get to the afterlife and meet god …
They wouldn’t get to meet God. They’d go straight to hell.
I think God would want to meet them just to see the look on their face when he told them they were going to hell.
Fitting since he belongs there himself
Not a fan of the trope of having to wait to see saint Peter before getting thrown into the pits?
That’s ridiculous, even Jesus thought so.
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
Matthew 21:12-13 (Source)
“Scuse me sir, have you read the Bible”?
“Have you?”
“Christians”: Put Christ back in Christmas!!!
Also “Christians”: More flying elves, and the magical reindeer’s nose needs to shine brighter!
Last time I attended a service all I could think was, “How would you explain that you spent $250,000 on the sound system?”
Took my step-son to that same church to witness me voting, trying to set an example. It was like a mini-mall in there.
Sarcastic child: “Dude! Do they have a Starbucks too?!”
Around a decade ago I went to church with my parents. They don’t go to a mega church but it is a large church in a Texas suburb. My mom offered to buy me a cup of coffee. I thought she was making that silly joke about “buying” me a cup because, it’s a church, coffee is free right? No. She actually paid money for coffee at church. And it was a goddamned k-cup.
… I think they usually do have a coffee shop.
i’m a church musician lately and the one i play at puts a pot of regular and a pot of decaf on. what they have isn’t bad for drip coffee, but that’s where they are.
and most of us in the band are of the “coffee? COFFEeE!!” persuasion so they really don’t even need good drip coffee, but eventually we’d start bringing our own grounds and it’d become a thing.
part of me wants to find one with a coffee shop now, but i really dislike those services.
I think this is the first time I’ve encountered a church musician on Lemmy. What instrument(s) do you play?
so currently i’m just a bass specialist in english handbells. i also sing, i am not great at bass guitar and i just got my sax out of the attic a few months ago and am still rusty. way back in my school days i worked my way through the district’s set of instruments and taught myself how to play everything they had except the double reeds. not necessarily well, but enough that if i wanted to get competent it would only take a couple weeks.
This was last year right? Assuming this year will be even bigger and more batshit
Like that one church with their Easter service. Put on a whole play. Custom sets. Pyrotechnics. Church of the Rock in Winnipeg. Jenny Nicholson covered it on YouTube. It’s so weird.
Isn’t that the one that has that talk about grace and humility, cutting between three UHD camera angles?
They turned the church into a circus.
Do they still give out bread tho?
That’s communism. Supply side Jesus says no.
Very fun read, thanks!
Indeed! Supply Side Jesus is one of my favorite webcomics.
So they donate money to be entertained? There is already an industry for that.
Yeah but this one doesn’t pay taxes
Pretty sure there are some struggling artist who also don’t pay taxes. Mostly because they are too poor but still.
The poor alwas pay taxes.
I meant in a they don’t even make enough money to qualify for taxes type of way.
You’ve been fed a ruse, even those who make nothing pay taxes.
Jenny Nicholson had a good video about this a while back.
Had to rewatch. All time great
She’s been gone for a while
Stuff like this is why I don’t publicly practice my faith with a specific lineage of Christ believers. Money corrupts if there is not honor or values. Also fuck them for not actually using to help people but themselves. That’s why I want to remove Tax exempt status from mega churches. (Not the smaller churches, just the mega ones.)
Y’know I actually enjoyed when churches would put on (actually) funny skits or silly Christmas plays for outreach or whatever because like, entertainment is a universal communication medium, and what’s wrong with having a little fun along the way?
But that was on the order of your local middle school production, maybe. Cardboard, craft paint, and a lot of suspension of disbelief. :p
This “Cirque du Holé” business in gigantic “campuses” is embarrassing. Like that time all those churches loaned out a literal micro roller coaster to each other for. . .some reason. . .?
What a grift.
The micro rollercoaster radiated “This damned thing has been sitting storage the fuck are we supposed to do with it” energy. Someone had a micro rollercoaster probably for festivals and things bad did not want to store it.
Wow they really hate the poor
That assumes they even acknowledge the existence of the poor.
