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  • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    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)

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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!

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    “Christians”: Put Christ back in Christmas!!!

    Also “Christians”: More flying elves, and the magical reindeer’s nose needs to shine brighter!

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    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?!”

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      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.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        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.

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            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.

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    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…

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.