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posted 08-03-2003 05:47 PM
Hm. Too bad noone made an offer like this when my parents were making me go to church.
It's nice to see the people who already go to church there support the idea. I'm very accustomed to anti-white sentiment.
Also, Black churches>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>White churches
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Zem
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posted 08-03-2003 11:10 PM
Er, are you using ">" as "greater than"?
If so... WTF? What is your criteria for that? Black churches have more people sing?
If you're a hardcore baptist, yeah, sure, whatever.. we can't really have any form of conversation involving religion. Assuming you're sane, though.... what would make a black church better than a white church?
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posted 08-03-2003 11:53 PM
Go to a black church every sunday and thursday, and you make sixty bucks. Go to a white church every sunday and thursday, and you'd be expected to donate eight times. And if you're as religious as I am, you'd be napping throuigh every sermon, so why not grab the $60?
On another note, > means "greater than" but has also been adapted to mean "is better than" And therefore, multiple > symnbolks mean "is much better than."
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posted 08-04-2003 12:37 AM
Yep. More singing, much better singing, and generally better hymns (not that long droning shit that makes you want to shoot yourself and everyone else). Also, the rest of the service is much more high-energy (cin Ah git in "AMEN!"), makes much more sense to me (in my experience, since all the black churches I've been to are in neighborhoods populated by poor people, which is where I'm from) and the people are genuinely happy to be there, which is in sharp contrast to what I've seen at white churches (and seems to go along a lot better with the idea of loving to worship God (the whole idea of church)).
Plus white churches smell dusty and black churches smell good.
But I'm no Baptist. I don't go to churches unless someone died.
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posted 08-04-2003 02:31 AM
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Originally posted by Atma:
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Zem
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posted 08-04-2003 10:10 AM
Yes, I know ">>>>>>>>" typically means "much better than", I was just hoping there was something I was missing because, well, that's such an awful thing to say it's not even funny.
I'm sensing your thought of what is a better church is based largely on movies and very early childhood memories. Yes, typically black baptist churches have a lot of singing. Compare that to white baptist churches, and you really see that the black churches sing more because they're better at it. But, the difference in amount of singing isn't that big a deal. Baptists, of any race, seem happy to be there. I'm bringing up baptists because when you see black churches in movies, that's typically what you've got. When you see crazy white people singing those awful songs that have 7 lines repeated 11 times, all the while some ugly dude is telling you to give money or something, they're typically baptist. They get the most publicity. While my firsthand knowledge of black churches is somewhat limited, I can tell you that white baptists are insane, and happy to be there.
I am Catholic. The variety in Catholic churches would surprise you. There are the very traditional ones with little old ladies trying to get into heaven. This may be what you're associating with white churches. These churches smell like old people. Then there's the more liberal ones, and people are happy to be there as well.
Really, it comes down to each individual church, with trends driven by particular denominations (you know, Catholics and all you other bastards who feel the need to protest), and trends driven by race. But don't confuse reality with the movies. You can't make a generalization like "black churches are better than white churches" without something better to back that up. Note that if you'd said the reverse, you'd be a racist bastard, having made a vague race-based comparison with nothing to back it up.
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posted 08-04-2003 12:37 PM
I went to a liberal Catholic service yesterday. It was bizarre. They almost ran out of Jesus-flesh.
The hymns were really contemporary (they had drums, a flutist and an oboe, along with a few others I don't remember). That seemed somewhat at odds with the priest and the deacon's clothing and demeanor and all. And seeing people going through the rituals (nobody seemed too excited) in Tshirts and jeans was even weirder. I suppose it was probably more bizarre before Vatican II though.
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Zem
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posted 08-04-2003 12:57 PM
I will never understand how anyone can walk into a church, of any sort, wearing jeans. Logically I shouldn't have a problem with it, I know, but I do... it's just weird.
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posted 08-04-2003 07:41 PM
I haven't confused reality with movies. I've been to plenty of black churches and plenty of white churches. I'll amend:
In my experience, Black churches>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>White churches
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posted 08-19-2005 10:33 PM
"God wants a rainbow in his church"
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posted 08-22-2005 04:27 PM
In this thread, Zem makes a powerful argument for being more annoying than cflakkin or anniekat.
As time passes, it's easy to forget how awful people really are.
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posted 08-23-2005 10:14 PM
Zem went on to move to some car websites, and made a bunch of IRL friends that he hangs out with and has a better life than before. These posts were within about a month or three of him discovering forums and right after his fiancee and girlfriend of 6 years broke up with him.
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