re: #81 HappyWarrior

To me, what I find interesting about Evangelicals as I drive by megachurches is how extravagant they’ve become and how Evangelicals early on criticized Catholics and Anglicans for being too posh and going against the original simple message of Christ. Somewhere that changed.

Somewhere along the line, churches became less about “giving to those who have need” and more about “fuck those guys, they’re the government’s problem”. I used to say that in my ideal world, the churches would provide the social safety net out of Christian generosity; I’ve been disabused of that notion by several arguments, but I still believe they should be donating the excess of their wealth and not spending it all on upgrades and bling. You can’t convince me that Jesus wants your pastoral leadership to fly in a private jet. There’s arguments to be made for technology upgrades to churches to keep up with the cyber world, but anything beyond that is frivolous.