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Isn't US protestantism simply a watered down corporatist religion?

Walk into the average church and you feel like you have interred into a conference center. The walls are bare with the exception of a few flags and and single cross behind the CEO's podium. The leadership is built on a cooperate business hierarchy model with the CEO being the preacher. The focus is almost exclusively on expansion and the vision of the CEO. EO however...ancient community of bishop leadership no CEO dictator. Church building looks like a church and it's focus looks as if it is by its very design focused on God. The vision is salvation for others but even more, a deep monastic focus on ones individual striving to be closer to God on a very deep and personal level. The corporate model appears to be failing as Atheism is on the rise in the USA and protestant nations in Europe. EO is the Eastern Orthodox Christians (second largest church in the world). I also includ many Roman Catholics as well.

Public Comments

It is not.
Yes, many churches are exactly that.
Protestanism is Catholicism with Paul substituted for Jesus.
no and you have not been to mine...IT IS GORGEOUS WITH STAINED GLASS AND IT DOES not look like a conference center..
http://atheismrefuted.com/ Distortions of truth always abound !!! Know your bible !!! Example May 21 Christ's return - - - - - PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THIS TIME FRAME THAT HAS BEEN SET !!! HIS METHOD OF DETERMINING THE TIME FRAME IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE METHOD FOR SCRIPTURE INTERPRETATION !!! http://bibleprophecy.paaw.com/index.php?…
Jesus' instruction to his followers was to not charge for spiritual instruction. Matthew 10:8. He also taught that all his true followers would be commissioned to make disciples and teach all the things that he taught. Matthew 28:19-20. And 1 Corinthians 1:10 says: "Now I exhort YOU, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that YOU should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among YOU, but that YOU may be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought." The churches do not do this, so in essence, they are not really Christian. God has called their acts of injustice to mind, and he is soon going to destroy them. Revelation 18:2-5
Yes, for they refused the counsel of Jesus to the church in Sardis representing them saying: “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write…I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou live, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shall not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shall not know what hour I will come upon thee. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy” As far as the Catholic church and the Orthodox is concerned, they had fallen back long before. Their buildings are "like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. M't:23:28: Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. You may wish to read "The True Church of Christ Revealed" at: http://www.philipadilla.waju.mx