Mickey7s been at it for well over a year, I doubt the hornyposting is going anywhere lol

It’s 29°C here in florida. That’s a Florida 2

🤷 that’s a christian-to-christian thing to determine. I’d love for that to be the case, but seeing as most Christian organizations are perfectly fine with the status quo, I don’t see that changing any time soon. Also, Martin Luther was a trash bag for plenty of reasons, I don’t see any point in seeking to align oneself with a raging misogynist, antisemite, and author of “Against the Murderous, Theiving Hordes of Peasants”, which was written in response to the German peasants war. Valid criticisms or not, the dude sucked and bred a religious movement that was just as bigoted, bloodthirsty, and money hungry as the catholics he was protesting

You’re right, I was just using that to highlight the differences between American and European protestant churches. Most american churches have ~75 congregants and are fairly small operations run out of buildings that weren’t built with the intention to be a church. As such, they usually lack the aesthetics associated with churches.

And to be fair, I’ve never been to a European protestant (of any variety) church, there’s a cultural image in america of what the average European church looks like, and it’s usually an older brick/stone building with high ceilings and round/arched windows, built with the intention of being a church. Many suburban american churches (this is where the folding chair trope comes from) looks more like this:

And this is a really nice example too, I had trouble finding one that reflected the true reality of many of these smaller churches.

Despite being called “non-denominational”, non-denominational christians are a broad group of independent churches and spiritual movements that fall under the protestant tradition. They aren’t a part of larger, more organized subsect of protestant like the baptists or lutherans, but their non-denominational-ism refers to not being a part of/neatly defined by an organized denomination of protestantism. Non-denominational Christianity can even be a nucleation point for new denominations, like the burgeoning evangelical movement that’s become a driving force in the fall of the american empire

Plenty of protestant denominations have lost the plot on the whole “protesting” bit. Joel osteen and Kenneth Copeland’s churches are considered to be in the protestant vein of christianity and their whole thing is flaunting wealth and having big, expensive churches. Whether they should be considered protestant is for the various flavors of protestant to decide. As far as I’m aware, there’s no broad consensus that defines protestantism besides “likes martin luther”, and “hates catholics*”

The post is referring to american protestant denominations like baptists, evangelicals, presbyterian, etc. as opposed to capital P Protestant churches. They’re usually in smaller buildings that aren’t full-time churches/ the space is often used for non-sermon church functions. For example, my childhood southern Baptist church was based out of a community center room that held ~40 people and hadnt been updated since the 80s

Can confirm, two the Walmarts in my city sell shotguns and bolt action hunting rifles