Re: Where Would Jesus Eat at the Food Court?

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:48:47AM -0500, Niel M. Bornstein wrote:
> I believe I chunred a similar article from the New York Times a few months
> ago.  It didn't discuss the shopping mall aspect, which is really really
> weird to me, but it talked about mega-churches with fitness centers and
> snack bars.

You gotta kinda wonder what the fundies are thinking (though some of
these are 'evangelicals', which roughly means a fundie who isn't
*completely* pissed off) since there's so much 'you can't serve god
and mammon' and 'it's harder for a rich man to enter heaven...' and
that whole moneychangers from temple scene...

Really weird indeed.

> Something tells me the Baptists would find it deeply disturbing if, say,
> a synagogue owned a shopping mall.  Probably spout some lines about usury
> and Shylocks.

No, Baptists believe that Jews already own all the shopping malls. :<

Kendall