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[–] 155 points 5 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Protestants, stale coffee and donuts

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    [–] 31 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Drop ceilings and the squishy uneven carpeted floors of mobile classroom units. Shudders

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (26 children)

    But protestant countries are full of awesome churches?

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  • [–] 51 points 5 months ago* (10 children)

    The post is referring to american protestant denominations like baptists, evangelicals, presbyterian, etc. as opposed to capital P Protestant churches. They're usually in smaller buildings that aren't full-time churches/ the space is often used for non-sermon church functions. For example, my childhood southern Baptist church was based out of a community center room that held ~40 people and hadnt been updated since the 80s

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    american protestant denominations

    One of the items Luther was protesting about was that churches were too expensive and ostentatious. So, no, unless you know if some protestants that aren't actually in the protest.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Plenty of protestant denominations have lost the plot on the whole "protesting" bit. Joel osteen and Kenneth Copeland's churches are considered to be in the protestant vein of christianity and their whole thing is flaunting wealth and having big, expensive churches. Whether they should be considered protestant is for the various flavors of protestant to decide. As far as I'm aware, there's no broad consensus that defines protestantism besides "likes martin luther", and "hates catholics*"

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I could be wrong but aren’t those considered Non-denominational these days

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Despite being called "non-denominational", non-denominational christians are a broad group of independent churches and spiritual movements that fall under the protestant tradition. They aren't a part of larger, more organized subsect of protestant like the baptists or lutherans, but their non-denominational-ism refers to not being a part of/neatly defined by an organized denomination of protestantism. Non-denominational Christianity can even be a nucleation point for new denominations, like the burgeoning evangelical movement that's become a driving force in the fall of the american empire

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They just aren't christians. Literally the thing that Jesus died for was him driving out the people buying and selling shit in the temple. They use his name and likeness to sell shit when he literally had a sermon saying that every single rich person deserved to burn in hell (a camel going through the eye of a needle is impossible, and yet easier than it is for a rich man to enter heaven). And they especially cannot claim to be part of anything Martin Luther did. They treat his list of complaints more like a god damned to-do list than anything.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    🤷 that's a christian-to-christian thing to determine. I'd love for that to be the case, but seeing as most Christian organizations are perfectly fine with the status quo, I don't see that changing any time soon. Also, Martin Luther was a trash bag for plenty of reasons, I don't see any point in seeking to align oneself with a raging misogynist, antisemite, and author of "Against the Murderous, Theiving Hordes of Peasants", which was written in response to the German peasants war. Valid criticisms or not, the dude sucked and bred a religious movement that was just as bigoted, bloodthirsty, and money hungry as the catholics he was protesting

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    The post is referring to american protestant denominations like baptists, evangelicals, presbyterian, etc. as opposed to capital P Protestant churches.

    They are still all capital P Protestant denominations. There is no European "Protestant church", those are also various denominations like Lutheran, Anglican, Calvinist, Reformist etc. etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Capital P in this instance is I believe referring to the 7 historical american Protestant denominations. The folding chair and strip mall variety are usually offshoots of the historical denomination.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Can confirm, German churches are cool Nevertheless the meme is funny

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

    Almost all of which were built before the reformation.

    Ulm Minster, Cologne Cathedral, Speyerer Dom, the Berlin Cathedral, all originally Catholic.

    England is a better example since their brand of Protestantism really favored big works to rival the Catholics.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Those aren't really Protestant churches, are they? Aren't they Anglican Church or something?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The Anglican church is technically also a Protestant church.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Huh, didn't realise. It's for sure not catholic, but thought it was something in between.

    Edit: Right, you did say technically. According to Wikipedia,

    The degree of distinction between Protestant and Catholic tendencies within Anglicanism is routinely a matter of debate both within specific Anglican churches and the Anglican Communion.

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    That would be the only soulslike on steam I might buy.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Holy shit. I've played through all of the souls games and only just now am realizing just how many churches are in the games.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Japanese know that churches are cool for boss fights.

    I have only played DS3 and ER. If i remember correctly, DS3 includes 1 big ass abbey (they call it cathedral), 1 big ass cathedral... annor londo isnt a catholic temple, but it has the looks for sure

    spoilerAnd beneath it, there is another freaking temple
    plus scattered churches.

    ER does not look like it gives churches that kind of protagonism apart from cult of marika

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    In Dark Souls 1 one of the most important boss fights is on the roof of a church you fight your way through to get on top of, and of course the same Anor Londo is there.

    The only one I can remember in Dark Souls 2 is the place you fight Ornstein. The architecture in 2 is quite a bit different from the rest of the series. Probably because it wasn't Miyazaki.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Strip mall fundie cult backrooms.

    I'd play that.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    #"MY GOD HERE COMES THE TARNISHED WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!"

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    Tbh dark souls 3 had too many cathedrals, so I'd be okay with a few rooms with folding chairs.

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    I'd be pretty happy with just a 'realistic' dark souls setting. The wild views were great in the various games, but now give me a perfectly rendered recreation of actual castles and medieval villages to romp through, with the occasional huge reptile ripping through a village's eastern quarter as I race to the well to raise the bucket of water that is its only weakness.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    How about modern liminal settings. A subway car at 3am. A Waffle house restroom. A closed stripmall.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I know I haven't the best memory to simply name them off, but I know I have played games like that already. Maybe not in the boss focused rpg style, but enough that they wouldn't really appeal on their own. But something like kingdom come or the witcher, but with all the goodness of elden ring bosses? I'd be down for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Luthern Dark Souls is more horrifying than you could possibly imagine.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    This sounds like a joke I'm too European to understand because my local Church of Scotland Kirk is a gothic edifice dating to the 15th century.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    I remember a congregation out where I live, in Yankeestan, had astened a crude structure onto their truckbed and they called it their mobile chapel. They'd drive out to agriculture zones and try to preach to migrants against catholicism.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's still a thing? Anti Catholicism in the US?

    I mean I know the US Government has beef with Catholics because of Liberation Theology so they funded Evangelical missionaries to preach that the people screwing them over were righteous and they should simply pray about it.

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