>Americans in charge of religion

>>67452503
*>protestants in charge of religion

>>67452503
l don't get the church pictures

America is a new country more or less, those are rural/neighbourhood churches

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>>67452597
>european rural church

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>>67452597
>american rural church

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>>67452503

>>67452792
is this to pay your paking ?

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>>67452838
That's so you can put your tithe on your credit card.

>>67452792
You have come so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-C3trU9ljw

It's normal to have religions - and religious denominations and innovations - that are unique to your own land. It's entirely normal that there would be an "American Christianity."

That said, I don't know how to explain some of this shit. There's no excuse for some of the creepier stuff.

>>67452739
The Puritanical fear of art and good aesthetic still has not entirely died out. You'd think the Puritans would all be dead by now but here you can still see their influence. Christianity has a great history of art and religious art, so I wonder where this could've come from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam#Comparison_with_Judaism_and_Christianity

>>67453058
>St David's Anglican Church
What the hell is this shit. Why can't our clergy be serious grownups? I feel like all I do with my church is complain about it.

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>>67453265
>being angelican in the current year

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RIP Big Butter Jesus, SE Ohio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ksuOaI61g

>>67453198
>muh Puritans
A negligible group that resided mainly in New England
Stop this meme

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>>67452503
>religion

>>67453273
>LDS
>FLDS
>RLDS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denominations_in_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement

STAHP IT

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>>67453586

LDS are bros
FLDS are fucking sick terrorists

>>67452705
>rural church
That's a fucking cistercian monastery. I'm all for shitting on proddie aestethics, but let's not be stupid.

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>>67452705
bait or you just don't know how a monastary looks like

>>67453308
Bite my ass. We'll be a real church again, you'll see. It'll happen. :~-(

>>67453418
And as I was pointing out, their influence is still everywhere despite them not actually being that big or popular ever. It's an unacknowledged undercurrent.

>>67454146
>We'll be a real church again
>again
You stopped being a real church when you made Henry VIII your boss. The anglican ministry is literally just a government ministry.

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>>67454146
>again

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>>67452705
>European urban church

This just shows how devoted Americans are. Only people who love God that much will put effort into all this.

>>67456947
Tbh when americans preach it sounds like god hates us and we should beg for his mercy, when the original message is the opposite.

>>67457015
Difference is Americans actually go to church on Sundays

Not me though, I'd rather work

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>>67457015

Only the poor redneck preachers sound that way.

The truly rich ones speak to you in dulcimer tones.

"It has been reported that Osteen stopped taking a $200,000 salary from Lakewood Church in 2005 and that his estimated net worth is $40 million. He also lives in a $10.5 million 17,000 square foot home with six bedrooms, six bathrooms, three elevators, five fireplaces, a guest house and pool house."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y_AUsUmCEM

>>67453672
>cis

>>67457144

Holy fuck that's a huge church! Is it like that every week?

>>67457015
>original message
>what is "the Old Testament"

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>>67457144
Prosperity gospel is a blight.

>>67457144
It's not bad stuff from a self help point of view, but is sounds somewhat sacrilegious to talk of faith like that. Sacrilegious and very, very prosaic.

>>67458493
It's a good business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCvpro-TMLk

I like Chinese folk religion.

>>67457015
>when the original message is the opposite.

Please go read the bible....you're embarassing france and by loose extension those decended from france.

>>67459809
Fuck off new worlder. We should fear god, but god does not hate us

>>67452597
churches are like businesses over there. everyone asks you 'what church do you go to?'.

It's like following a sports team or something it's weird

>>67452503
Many american protestants give all of us christians a bad name. They are full of hate and intolerance. sure, catholics are conservatives but not like that.

>protestant bashing because the churches are bland.

Shallow catholics.

>>67469362
american proddys are a shit.
Lutherans are ok.

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Monasteries are cool as hell, especially if they're remote and stand all alone in the landscape.

>>67469419
I like to hear sound theological reasoning and you can find that in America though you have to wade a bit. I just dislike that the 'internet catholic' attacks protestantism with such a shallow argument that it leaves me to wonder if he is actually catholic at all. But I agree in a sense European proddys are not so commercialized as some US churches are.

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>>67469570
>commercialized
in what way, I am a Catholic the only churches I have been in look like pic related (I just looked up American Catholic Church and found a pic that looks closest to what I generally see)

Its not quite as circular though.

>>67452503
>they even claimed their Jesus as an american

this autism is so real

>>67469570
>European proddys are not so commercialized as some US churches are.

That's because commercialism is the true religion of America.

>>67452503
The Westboro Baptist Church does nothing wrong.