For the same reason, you’re thinking of going?A
I’ll give you one big reason: Ignorance. Unfortunately many adult Catholics never take the time to learn what their own church teaches. Thus when other churches feed them the anti-Catholic garbage they buy it and believe it as facts. You would be surprise how many ex-Catholics come to my door and tell me the most absurd and distorted views about Catholicism. I always set them straight and a lot of them leave with a look of confusion.
Talk about an empty walk of faith into a mega non-denom. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Literally. Empty faith yields shallow belief.
I’ve been to those mega-churches (my younger brother is the “music pastor” for one of the largest mega-churches in New England). I think the reason people flock to them is that there is very little religion there (and no talk of sin), but lots of good free entertainment.
I agree with Nicea 100%. One thing for which our Church suffers is poor catechises in more than a few parishes. Find fault with whomever you wish. We have many small parishes and missions throughout the world, many of them very poor. It is sometimes very difficult to place an informed instructor in each of them in order to teach the faith properly. Thank God that this is changing drastically, but we still fall short in many areas.
Many of them are not into studying the faith . They are big on practice of the faith, but that is about it . I imagine if someone of their race is in the evangelical churches they may be able to get them to visit . They get tied up in the singing and the Charismatic part of it . You see many of them are into the Charismatic movement . SO many of them at times join the Charismatic Penticostal churches .
Listen to the man with the USP compact!
Some Hispanics who had fallen away and came back have testified to their ignorance of the true Church and fell because of the lies and grave misunderstandings of sola scriptorists. We should drag em back to Spain. Yeah the motherland esse’. Whup out the Spanish Inquisition on their asses. No one expects em holmes…
I loathe that stuff. Its so horribly irreverent and banal. Its like a pagan festival… Clapping and stopping. Gregorian Chant or perhaps polyphony would be like ‘Pearls before swine…’ I suppose. They did this stuff at a Crusio I attended. I heard good things about it. I literaly got sick during it. I got sick again right at the Ultreya and I got the point not to attend this sacrilege.
The best one I ever heard from an ex Catholic was that the Church never even taught her that Christ rose from the dead.
Although their may be some genuine people attending these mega churches, think your right it is a entertainment based event, often looks (the church building inside and out) like a business and does focus on socializing both on Sunday and throughout the week. Regarding the socializing/community aspect of churches I do think the RCC is left lacking - but that’s another thread, but even with this weakness I don’t see it as a reason to attend a mega church, for me at least.
Maybe when you’re strong in your faith you should go. Just to see they’re in the entertainment business serving as a means to distract you away from the work a Christian does on themselves. Enjoying life is a good thing, but those wanting sugar all the time can’t wonder why they get diabetes. This circus atmosphere to attract people is only going to attract the wrong people spending their life avoiding an actual life. The only practical benefit I can see is a disney sense of clean(er) fun as opposed to hooligans cow tipping.
The great part about it is that it came with this.