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In American Culture, we have a few things to gawk at regularly. Celebrities, True Crime, and my personal favorite, Other People’s Religion. Religion has manifested in America in so many interesting ways that many can, and do, pick one religion they’re not a part of and spend the rest of their lives studying it. I am obsessed with religion, especially evangelical christianity in all its forms. This is not news to any long time Memeforum reader. A couple times a year someone from some kind of evangelical sect goes viral and all of the people who were raised far away from that kind of life lose their minds in confusion. People who are not obsessives still can find joy in a casual gawk at people whose lives are dominated by a religion they have not brushed up against in their everyday lives.
I was raised with religion but my family is full of Cafeteria Catholics. I do not understand most kinds of religious devotion because I was raised to believe the man at the head of my religion has a direct connection to God but we should take what he says with a grain of salt. Since my introduction to Protestantism and its many forms I have been a lifelong student of what makes each sect different in an attempt to understand why. I find no answers but learning what other religions believe and how they practice is a fun hobby and once you start it’s hard to stop. Especially when you get to the fundamentalists. Pentecostals pioneered and perfected Snake Church. Calvinists believe there’s only a couple hundred of us getting into heaven but one could always lose their place. Each sect has a fascinating belief system and culture but there’s one kind of Christian that beats everybody The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or the Mormons.
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