>Be me
>Be taking an internship over in California for a few months between school years
>Be looking for a church
>Mom recommends one she found on Facebook
>All their stuff on the page is for the Lorax
>Figure it must be some thing they’re doing with their children’s classes
>okayletsdothis.jpg
>Pride flag flying outside
>Okay that’s a little weird for a church, but it’s Cali, maybe they’re just trying to be welcoming
>Go in
>They sing a couple hymns I haven’t heard before
>Is nice
>Pastor goes up to preach
>Eventually I notice he doesn’t have a bible
>He pulls out the Lorax book
>Reads it in its entirety
>Keep in mind this is the adult service
>Proceeds to wax poetic about nature and environmentalism for the next 45 minutes
>Mentions a vague ‘creator‘ maybe twice the whole service
>Still never mentioned the gospel the whole time
>By the end of this I’m beginning to think maybe the Catholics are right about us all being heretics
>My family still jokes to this day about the Church of the Lorax
That’s the second worst I’ve seen.
The story of the worst one goes like this
>Same summer
>Family is in Cali for another reason so they visit me while they’re there.
>It’s Sunday Sunday Sunday!
>Figure we’ll find a place to go to service
>Already know to avoid the Church of the Lorax
>See that Stanford chapel is nearby
>Figure we’ll see what that’s like
>Place is gorgeous
>Looks like a cathedral inside
>The ordained minister comes up
>She’s a woman
>First thing she wants to tell us is that she’s a lesbian
>The rainbow stole already kind of gave it away
>californiansbelikethat.png
>Preaches on the sermon of Jesus driving the legion of demons into the pigs
>Seems weirdly fixated on the legion character
>Quotes his lines a lot
>Not a lot of focus on Jesus
>Gets really passionate about LGBT people and how people may hate them but they’ll never back down
>Flat out says ‘We are Legion, We are Many‘ at one point with no trace of irony
>Tries to use it as an inspiring slogan
>I think by this point she’s forgotten she’s flat out endorsing the demons
>In what is nominally a church
>Rest of the congregation just nods along like ‘hey, maybe the demons had a point‘
>You know, maybe it’s not protestants
>Maybe California is just Hell