Reply #9: When you think about our culture it really is not

[TallahasseeGrannie]

so surprising that these denominations play upon emotion.

First, consider the level of promiscuity and wild oat sowing that a LOT of people experience in their younger years. This is a culture where if it feels good do it, screw it, snort it. So when they get tired of it, they turn to an experience that seems transforming to them.

And then there is reality TV and Springer and Maury. People of limited intelligence are encouraged to shriek, share their basest secrets, jump around like idiots. These folks look for similar emotional release in their churches.

The churches are symptoms of a society with no control. On the one hand they attempt to exert control over the culture, and yet they are also beset by the same excesses the culture exhibitis.