Further complainant sayeth naught.Trump attended the Christmas service this morning at First Baptist Dallas. Pastor Robert Jeffress asked him to come up and give a Christmas message to the congregation, and a MAGA rally broke out. Trump’s ‘prayer’ was about Afghanistan, inflation, gas prices and the border. pic.twitter.com/GstuAyAQry
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 19, 2021
(I mean, how many people in that congregation with their cell phones out are gonna disagree with this sentiment from Jr.?:
"We've turned the other cheek and I understand sort of the biblical reference, I understand the mentality but it's gotten us nothing," he complained. "OK? It's gotten us nothing while we've ceded ground in every major institution."
Damned few, I'd warrant.)
His church is a temple of Mammon. I'd guess about a third to a half of such places are temples of Mammon, maybe more than half. Anywhere Burke, Gomez, Cordelone, etc. preside is one.
ReplyDeleteThe AP News has an article on the fall off in church attendance with the pandemic. Anecdotally I know from our old church that attendance is down and donations are permanently off at least 20%. It seems clear for the survey and the comments from pastors and rabbis that some reasonable number of people will likely never come back. We still haven't found a new church, some places we would like to visit are still all or mostly remote, and even those that have in person are socially distanced, there is little to no singing, and there is little fellowship to meet people and get a sense of the congregations. The longer we don't go, the less likely we may ever go. Once people break the habit of attendance it's harder to reestablish it in the face of typical American life.
ReplyDeletehttps://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-houses-of-worship-struggle-rebuild-attendance-40db85787a53244dc0253fbd526de55f?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
(My apologies for not making this a live link, I have given up trying to make them work.)