Volunteer church work (during past 7 days): Assemblies of God were highest at 30%, with the lowest going to Catholics at 12%.
I love how Pentecostals persistently shine as DOING THE STUFF as John Wimber often said. . . . doing the stuff The Bible says we should be doing as Christians. And Praise God that the AoG again measured up above others. Good on em.
I think many RC’s do many good works. However, for their percentages to be so relatively low . . . says something about the vaunted claims so many RC’s make hereon about how super sanctified, super holy, super Christian, exclusively this and exclusively that the Vatican Alice In Wonderland School Of Theology And Reality Mangling purportedly is . . .
of course, that’s based on UNHistorical rubberized false pseudo history CLAIMS by the cliques of political bureaucratic power mongering magicsterical types 300+ years after the facts and after the true historical events.
When I was attending the Catholic church, for most of my life, communion was given at the altar rail. People would knee along the rail and the priest would go down the line from person to person and place the host on their tongue.
When it was dissolved, they would get up and the next person would take their place. Very assembly line in fashion.
Sometime between Christmas and Easter one year, the procedure was changed and communion was given by the people filing up the aisle to the priest, who remained stationary.
Now, this particular year, as Easter rolled around, the church was packed this Sunday. Time comes for communion and more than half the people went to the altar rail to receive communion, as they had done in the past. All the regular attenders were filing up the aisle in the new procedure.
It was total chaos. Nobody knew what to do. The priest had to actually go to the mike and tell people that the method had been changed and they now needed to get in line. He sounded so disgusted.
I remember the event so clearly because I was astounded at the huge number of people who were going up front, pious looking as all get out, who had just revealed that they were the twice a year attenders. A lot of them looked embarrassed about it. Many looked angry.
The point is that Catholic churches are filled with people who don’t attend regularly and don’t take their Catholicism seriously. This image being put forth that all Catholics do and believe such and such is simply not true.
Catholicism is being presented as a united front, and all it is is a front.