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It not like this fly over system costs very much. Compared to the huge building and technology they install. I am fully against Church and religion in general, but flying Santa isn’t too spectacular. The private jets, buildings the size of Amazon warehouses that actually cost…
Maybe, but the small things do add up. Insurance rate increases due to high risk aerial performances, coordinator/safety team, etc.
You’re funny thinking they pay for any of that.
If Jesus returned from the dead he would be anti-Christian.
How much further from actual Christian values can modern Christianity get?
Was Jesus ever Cristian?
What in the ragety-anne-fuck is going on there?
They turned the church into a circus.
Do they still give out bread tho?
That’s communism. Supply side Jesus says no.
Very fun read, thanks!
What in the actual three-ring-fuck is going on in this picture?
I know that church doesn’t have to be as solemn as a funeral, but still… unless these production levels are generating millions for charity, I can’t imagine how people are just okay with this.
Kinda unrelated, but I got a place on my church’s theater. I’m gonna act as an angel. Hope they won’t put me flying like this.
Angel of …?
/s
But only by suffering enough will the poor be worthy. Then they’ll magically lift themselves up out of poverty.
So heap suffering on them!
Oh look, I guess they were never worthy…
People are gonna watch The Righteous Gemstones and think it’s a documentary
It is.
Is this an actual service or just an event provided by the church? Staging plays is a social task that can be serviced by a church.
Very American and over the top, still.
A google image search could have answered your question of doubt.
The visual is from the annual “Gift of Christmas” production at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas. It IS a church production.
Despite being a 40-year tradition at the church, the $1 million Broadway-style production has faced backlash for its extravagance in recent years. In the past, church leaders have justified the performance by explaining the miracle of Jesus’ birth warrants an over-the-top celebration. They told the Dallas Morning News last year, “Jesus deserves our absolute best. … It’s unfortunate that the perennial American tradition of the church Christmas program now draws criticism.”
Elaborate, borderline heretical passion plays are very much a thing. (Ever wanted to see Iron Man crucified?) Churches definitely do rent out their spaces, but this kind of thing is usually put on by the church.
Yeah renting out megachurches for other parties to do events in isn’t really any better
It’s an event space? That’s perfectly normal. E.g. small musical performance are held in old European churches. Such as some choir music(non religious)
How is a church an event space? It should be a holy site.
small musical performance are held in old European churches
Only in deconsecrated ones, i.e. church buildings that are not used as churches anymore. They do allow non-religious music at funerals (sometimes) but that’s about it
I worked for a school district that contracted with a church as a space for professional development. It’s not uncommon.
In the US? I’m not contesting that it’s uncommon there, just saying that it doesn’t seem very Christian. I’m not religious and I don’t care, if not for the hypocrisy.
Yes - US. I was honestly uncomfortable and thought it seemed dicey to force teachers to be around all of the propaganda, but using public funds to push religion is the least unethical thing Epic Charter Schools does lol.
These are the kind of churches where private jets are owned. It’s more of a venue issue than what they are doing with the venue. These are businesses in disguise as churches.
Ok. But then the issue is the rent they charge. They should rent it out at cost or below.
Example: Gebührenordnung Raummiete - Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchgemeinde Meiningen https://share.google/hOTib1IFAd0ADiM7y
Just don’t support them at all. Haggling over price is not sending a message.
It’s an abundance that kinda goes against the word of Jesus? If they’re “combining” that level of stage with a place of worship, I imagine that they should also be holding events at almost the same frequency of an opera house, and at the same level (and for the benefit of society). But in my experience, it’s usually only used for preaching the word of Jesus… of which extravagance isn’t a tenet
But that’s just my 2 cents and despite the particulars of the photo, the point of the meme remains (at least to me). Jesus didn’t preach about the “good of the Great Gatsby”; they just wanted people to love each other and be “good” to one another… not unwittenly flaunt their position of power
I didn’t know a mime getting hanged was in the Bible. Gotta feel bad for the French even their god hates them.
Panem & circenses…
That’s ridiculous, even Jesus thought so.
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
Matthew 21:12-13 (Source)
“Scuse me sir, have you read the Bible”?
“Have you?”
Y’know I actually enjoyed when churches would put on (actually) funny skits or silly Christmas plays for outreach or whatever because like, entertainment is a universal communication medium, and what’s wrong with having a little fun along the way?
But that was on the order of your local middle school production, maybe. Cardboard, craft paint, and a lot of suspension of disbelief. :p
This “Cirque du Holé” business in gigantic “campuses” is embarrassing. Like that time all those churches loaned out a literal micro roller coaster to each other for. . .some reason. . .?
What a grift.
The micro rollercoaster radiated “This damned thing has been sitting storage the fuck are we supposed to do with it” energy. Someone had a micro rollercoaster probably for festivals and things bad did not want to store it.
“Christians”: Put Christ back in Christmas!!!
Also “Christians”: More flying elves, and the magical reindeer’s nose needs to shine brighter!
Don’t you remember that bible story? Where he got the bread and fish, gave the food to his friends, then flew around to flex on the poors?
Oh yeah, I remember it. It;s in the Go Fuck Em Poors Bible with Supple Side Jesus.
