Hey now! I was raised protestant I take that statement personally, I am never reading another one of your articles again. Ptooey. I am kidding of course.
You're not wrong in your assessment a lor of churches have gone progressive trying to keep up with contemporary sentiments to draw in the the current crowd.
I grew up in a Baptist church where the men were the leads in the church and when you went to church the men wore suit and ties and the women wore dresses. I am not sure if it's still that way but it's how it was in the 90s and early 2000s. The main rituals were Communion and Baptisms that only happen once. Some Protestant churches do multiple Baptisms on one person.
To be honest, I'm very ignorant of protestantism. There are so many branches, I find it confusing. What I like about catholicism is the art, the beautiful churches and the elaborate rituals. Protestants don't like art in churches, and don't seem to care about communion (I think some churches don't even do it), so it doesn't have much attraction for me. I like Bach's music and some protestant hymns, though. (I think because they had the "no images" thing, they tended to do good music instead).
Having grown up in South America, the side of protestantism I'm most familiar with are the evangelical churches, usually of American origin, or copying the American model, which celebrate their services (they are not called masses) in huge, ugly repurposed buildings with kitsch decoration, and are almost wholly about making money from poor people, and are more interested in the Old Testament than in the New, so I tend to have a negative opinion of them. I suppose some evangelical churches are not completely bad and do some good work. But still, not my thing.
Hey now! I was raised protestant I take that statement personally, I am never reading another one of your articles again. Ptooey. I am kidding of course.
You're not wrong in your assessment a lor of churches have gone progressive trying to keep up with contemporary sentiments to draw in the the current crowd.
I grew up in a Baptist church where the men were the leads in the church and when you went to church the men wore suit and ties and the women wore dresses. I am not sure if it's still that way but it's how it was in the 90s and early 2000s. The main rituals were Communion and Baptisms that only happen once. Some Protestant churches do multiple Baptisms on one person.
To be honest, I'm very ignorant of protestantism. There are so many branches, I find it confusing. What I like about catholicism is the art, the beautiful churches and the elaborate rituals. Protestants don't like art in churches, and don't seem to care about communion (I think some churches don't even do it), so it doesn't have much attraction for me. I like Bach's music and some protestant hymns, though. (I think because they had the "no images" thing, they tended to do good music instead).
Having grown up in South America, the side of protestantism I'm most familiar with are the evangelical churches, usually of American origin, or copying the American model, which celebrate their services (they are not called masses) in huge, ugly repurposed buildings with kitsch decoration, and are almost wholly about making money from poor people, and are more interested in the Old Testament than in the New, so I tend to have a negative opinion of them. I suppose some evangelical churches are not completely bad and do some good work. But still, not my thing.