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TlalocW

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2. Livestreaming their services

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2020, 09:02 AM

Apr 2020

Opens them up to their feeling like a TV show. Easy to ignore. Oops, gotta go to the bathroom, maybe grab a snack on the way back... Is this still on?

There are no call-and-response of Amen and Hallelujah to get a crowd hyped up. No pressure put on people when an actual physical collection plate is put in front of them. Most of these preachers are of the prosperity-gospel stripe, and I'm sure they had some humdingers of a sermon for Easter that would have worked in, "planting a seed," in this time of both seasonal and spiritual renewal (hot damn, I should be a prosperity-gospel preacher - that's poetic as shit).

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The news media really needs to have a serious conversation as to why some churches are staying open [View all] Major Nikon Apr 2020 OP

Testing God, flaunting their piety and bragging about their faith. Thomas Hurt Apr 2020 #1

Livestreaming their services TlalocW Apr 2020 #2