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.
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!
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.
They turned the church into a circus.
Do they still give out bread tho?
So they donate money to be entertained? There is already an industry for that.
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.
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.)
Wow they really hate the poor
That assumes they even acknowledge the existence of the poor.
It not like this fly over system costs very much. Compared to the huge building and technology they install. I am fully against Church and religion in general, but flying Santa isn't too spectacular. The private jets, buildings the size of Amazon warehouses that actually cost....
Don't you remember that bible story? Where he got the bread and fish, gave the food to his friends, then flew around to flex on the poors?
I didn't know a mime getting hanged was in the Bible. Gotta feel bad for the French even their god hates them.
Is this an actual service or just an event provided by the church? Staging plays is a social task that can be serviced by a church.
Very American and over the top, still.
Yeah renting out megachurches for other parties to do events in isn't really any better
It's an event space? That's perfectly normal. E.g. small musical performance are held in old European churches. Such as some choir music(non religious)
These are the kind of churches where private jets are owned. It's more of a venue issue than what they are doing with the venue. These are businesses in disguise as churches.
How is a church an event space? It should be a holy site.
small musical performance are held in old European churches
Only in deconsecrated ones, i.e. church buildings that are not used as churches anymore. They do allow non-religious music at funerals (sometimes) but that's about it
A google image search could have answered your question of doubt.
The visual is from the annual "Gift of Christmas" production at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas. It IS a church production.
Despite being a 40-year tradition at the church, the $1 million Broadway-style production has faced backlash for its extravagance in recent years. In the past, church leaders have justified the performance by explaining the miracle of Jesus’ birth warrants an over-the-top celebration. They told the Dallas Morning News last year, “Jesus deserves our absolute best. … It’s unfortunate that the perennial American tradition of the church Christmas program now draws criticism.”
Looks like the set of The Righteous Gemstones.
Panem & circenses…
What in the actual three-ring-fuck is going on in this picture?
I know that church doesn't have to be as solemn as a funeral, but still... unless these production levels are generating millions for charity, I can't imagine how people are just okay with this.
Putting up a literal show for the believers. Look at the shiny thing, and give us money!
Church is just another form of entertainment for Americans.
If Jesus returned from the dead he would be anti-Christian.
How much further from actual Christian values can modern Christianity get?
People are gonna watch The Righteous Gemstones and think it's a documentary
It is.
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!
But only by suffering enough will the poor be worthy. Then they’ll magically lift themselves up out of poverty.
So heap suffering on them!
Oh look, I guess they were never worthy…
And somehow Palpatine returned.
What a golden calf.
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