In which our regular writers toss around
subjects a little more volatile than usual.
Tom: You sent me a horrible parody of a contemporary evangelical church service, IC. You’ve got to know I couldn’t
leave that alone. I’m still brushing my teeth to get the taste out of
my mouth.
But when they’re snarking the modern eleven
o’clock church meeting on YouTube, and especially when it looks horribly
familiar to most of your audience, you’ve almost got to
concede we evangelicals are done like dinner. And it appears we cooked ourselves.
Does this travesty seem familiar to you?
Immanuel Can: You seem more
shocked about it than I. There’s a reason why the piece is funny so many
people; it’s recognition. The jokes reflect the current reality of many, many
evangelical-type churches.