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US tradcaths having a Meltdown over the Pope blessing a piece of ice (Its actually a Pagan Comunist Ritual!!)
(hexbear.net)
Extra: Tradcath turning on Waslsh for not being antisemetic
The Holy Father blesses water and Matt Walsh flies into histrionics, but patting an anti white jew on the back is a-okay.
Conservatism will always sell out Catholicism.
The comment section turn into different chuds fighting over which christian sect is the correct one lol
The "church inside of an office space" thing was always so weird to me. Like, God is the most important thing in my life, but not to the point where we want to create like a dedicated space for worshiping him when there's a perfectly good strip mall right here
I get where you're coming from but at the same time, part of me thinks that utilising an existing space rather than building a whole new structure with limited uses is probably the best thing most of these denominations have ever done.
If it was a small religion with only a handful of local worshipers, I would get it as a concession to practicality. But major Christian denominations do it all the time, like you guys have the cash to build a chapel, what are you doing here?
I grew up Christian so I can answer this:
Emphasizing aesthetics over the spirit of Christ is sinful. Why build a fancy chapel like that when you could use the money for mission work instead? Four walls, a ceiling, and the Body of Christ is all you need.
Trust me, as a lay person you are going to prefer the strip mall church over the giant chapel Church. The chapel people will judge how you dressed for church meanwhile the Strip Mall boy worship in street wear. Obviously a generalization but I find overproduced architecture on churches correlates with more Pharisee-like behavior. Is the mission how we look or what we do?
When I say "chapel" I had a tiny square building on a residential lot in mind, not a big cathedral like what the prosperity gospel grifters use.
Inside Christendom a tiny square building on a lot is largely interchangeable with a strip mall church depending on how rural or urban the region. And again why would the body of Christ spring for a building and real estate when they can accomplish the same things renting a unit in a strip mall? To the pious that's money that could be better spent on mission work but if you prefer pharisee style aesthetic Christianity there's no shortage of that either
And mind you there plenty of simple churches on single lots that have real fleshed out chapels and advanced architecture that are a far cry from prosperity gospel. There are scales and octaves to this shit
Yeah it's a weird differentiation, but it feels like American evangelicalism has decided that it's actually a good thing to set up next to the money changers now.