Hi, everyone. I really need to vent. I don't expect anybody to actually read this whole thing, but if you do I'd love it if you could share your thoughts with me....
Crossposted from Atheism@kbin.social, a larger but less active community than this one.
Marriages and funerals are the few occasions when non-members go to church, so the priests often use those times try to convert the people and/or get money out of them.
As a side note, Atheism@kbin.social is not larger than Atheism@lemmy.world. I suspect that you got that from looking at the subscriber count on kbin.social, which is different from the subscriber count on lemmy.world. I think they only show subscribers from the local instance, i.e. subscriber count is not federated.
Marriages and funerals are the few occasions when non-members go to church, so the priests often use those times try to convert the people and/or get money out of them.
As a side note, Atheism@kbin.social is not larger than Atheism@lemmy.world. I suspect that you got that from looking at the subscriber count on kbin.social, which is different from the subscriber count on lemmy.world. I think they only show subscribers from the local instance, i.e. subscriber count is not federated.
Your suspicion is correct. I thought that the subscriber count listed was the total.
And if that was the priest’'s sales pitch to outsiders, all I can say is that he needs to work on it a lot and I hope he never does.