[irishjuggler]

Ho hum. It’s just about time for another crackdown on the Latin Mass people who still show up.

[goodnesswins]

Maybe...because so many have gone WOKE???!!!

[napscoordinator]

Never saw a church on Star Trek. I wonder the more educated the less religious. Of course God knew this would happen. He’s not shocked.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

[Taxman]

The statistical evidence confirms that pepple who attend Church regularly have longer, happier lives.

[linMcHlp]

3 churches - music loud enough to force you out the door.

1 church actually had a pastor who was around during the week.

2 19th century churchs under renovation.

Some friends who gather, where you can actually talk openly - it is a very old traditional way. They simply have what they call, a gathering.

A church in Chicago land:

Chicago pastor: ‘I live on a roof to raise cash for black youths - but BLM won’t help’ [He is a Republican.]

https://nypost.com/2022/05/28/chicago-pastor-lives-on-roof-raises-cash-for-black-youthbut-blm-wont-help/

[null and void]

Churches that have lost God lose parishioners.

Nobody saw that coming, eh?

[vpintheak]

I’ve been searching for a new home church for the last year. Have settled on a small Building now believing Reformed-leaning Baptist Church. Not glitz or glammer, but Jesus.

[Ezekiel]

In PRRI's study, those with no religious affiliation represented 27% of the population. Likewise a majority of Americans either seldom (28%) or never (29%) attend religious services; and more than one-third (37%) of those who exited a religion identified themselves as "former" Catholics.

It's the house of bondage because the last thing a corrupt institution [of any type] wants anyone to do is to get up and walk. Away. The premise out of this church perspective is that unreligious and unaffiliated = secular, uninterested, rebellious, and unrighteous.

It's an easy (lazy) conclusion to form, because there are always anti-God characters who despise what it good, right, and decent. But the finger-pointing at least serves to deflect from the rot within and the associated reasons people of integrity dust off their feet, knowing full well that they'll get "the treatment", scorned and lumped in with the hedonists and anti-social types.

As far as a remnant within the system, somebody's got to take one for the team. That's how week after week, the Messiah could sit in a pew -- well, even a humble folding chair in one of those simple, "just Jesus" kind of places -- and nobody's gonna recognize. He's just 'some regular guy' of good reputation who could be taken advantage of for his kindness, generosity, and selflessness.

Let *that* institution explain itself..

[Grey182]

It is easier to find a preacher online who reflects their values. Even my Protestant grandfather rarely attended church, he listened to a preacher on the radio as far back as the 1940’s.