In Manassas, Va., Pastor Rob Seagears's summer sermon series involved dressing up and channeling characters from whichever movie was number-one at the box office that week, and then tying that message to God. Easy: "Dark Night" (with its built-in morality). Harder: "Hellboy II." Hardest: "Tropic Thunder" (the black preacher as a white actor playing a black soldier). And in the UK, the management of Birmingham Cathedral has turned all entrepreneurial, setting out to create a chain of wine bars and branded merchandise to, er, lift the church's profile and raise money for community work. Washington Post // Daily Mail (London)
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Bob Heinlien got it right back in the 50's; Soon, you'll have stores and restaurants in the chruches and adverts in the sermons.
Maybe it's already happening - recall Hank hill's comment about an Evangelical church - "If I want that sort of religious experience, I can get it by walking around the Mall, thinking 'bout Jesus!"
. . . And who was it who threw legitimate businessmen out of a place of worship some time ago in a well-known incident?
Maybe it's already happening - recall Hank hill's comment about an Evangelical church - "If I want that sort of religious experience, I can get it by walking around the Mall, thinking 'bout Jesus!"
. . . And who was it who threw legitimate businessmen out of a place of worship some time ago in a well-known incident?
Posted by DFStuckey in Auckland New Zealand on 09/02 at 02:14 PM
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