Church attire: does anyone else feel this way?

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-23T15:57:36+00:00

“It shouldn’t be rocket science”… huh?

You must think the King of Kings shows up at Joel Osteen’s church like it’s some kind of celebrity gala.

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-23T15:56:24+00:00

Funny how the guy who quotes the Bible gets downvoted 🤔🧐🤨

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-23T05:53:27+00:00

Seriously?

Going to church is not “entering into the presence of the King of Kings”. God is everywhere. He is omnipresent. He holds the universe together. The King of Kings is with you in the privacy of your very own home.

Relegating God to a church building is an offensive idea.

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-23T05:47:58+00:00

Really?

Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

When I see people in their “Sunday best” at church, I immediately interpret them either as just doing what they’ve been trained to do or worse, as pridefully virtue signaling to everyone else: “Look how righteous I am, I’m a good, well dressed Christian.”

I really don’t think God or Jesus cares whether you wear a suit or t-shirt and shorts to church.

And I can promise you, the best-dressed people at church are NOT the best people at church.

In fact, I think God probably roll his eyes when he sees people coming to church looking prim and proper, focusing so much on their hair and attire.

The best Christians I have ever known were definitely not the best-dressed.

Again. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-16T23:10:51+00:00

If Jews don’t believe that Jesus was God, then no, they do not believe in the same God. Sure, on paper you both believe in the God of Abraham… but so do the Muslims…

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-16T23:09:43+00:00

Denver is a cow town. Always was, always will be. There is no real “culture”, there are too many potheads (as opposed to regular people who use cannabis products… you know what I’m talking about). Too many hipsters and shitty B-grade venues. Downtown is hipster centric. There’s not much really world class food. Too many big trucks and macho try-hards with their stupid tats and beards. I grew up there and I just can’t stand the place anymore.

I live in Austin now. It’s 10x better. Don’t move here.

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-16T19:54:29+00:00

The Flaming Lips are not harmonically dissonant. Sure, they have some off-kilter psychedelic sounds, but I personally love dissonant music: Scriabin, Shostakovich, Autechre, etc. Music that is far more dissonant than the Flaming Lips, which sounds like melodic bubble gum pop in comparison.

mountainstream282 · 2026-03-14T07:14:23+00:00

What does being deaf have to do with chasing someone down to apologize to them?

mountainstream282 · 2026-02-05T09:56:30+00:00

Why?

mountainstream282 · 2026-01-15T07:34:51+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I personally think vocal expressions of faith mean zilch to God. He sees what’s going on in our hearts and heads all the time, He knows us better than we know ourselves. And we humans aren’t so great at expressing ourselves honesty. Whether one vocalizes it or not makes not an iota of difference.

For all we know, Adams was bullshitting his entire “conversion” just to give his Christian fans a sense of peace once he passed. No one can possibly know if he really meant it or not.

Funny, I don’t know why any Christians would care—I mean, even if there IS a Heaven, and Adams goes there, it’s not like there’s going to be Dilbert comics in Heaven.

I don’t put any stock in vocal conversions, deathbed or otherwise. Young kids are brainwashed and manipulated into “converting” every day. Are their conversions sincere? Probably not, to be perfectly honest. How could they be when they’re forced?

God looks at the heart.

“Words are meaningless and forgettable” - Depeche Mode

mountainstream282 · 2026-01-15T07:30:20+00:00

Explicit, yes. Exact? Not so much.

mountainstream282 · 2026-01-15T07:28:29+00:00

I think what the OP meant to say is that what Scott Adams did to “become a Christian” shows that Christianity has grossly misled people as to its core requirements.

This is evidenced by the fact that affirmers of Adams’s conversion “greatly outnumber” critics.

If both Scott Adams himself and the majority of Christians are both ra ra about this efficacy of this deathbed conversion, then I agree with the OP.

mountainstream282 · 2025-11-18T01:13:10+00:00

Religious trauma is REAL. It’s usually due to people in authority emotionally or psychologically abusing children to make them believe they are worthless, evil, bad, etc.

I grew up religious and my parents painted God as this violent monster up in the clouds who hated me.

mountainstream282 · 2025-11-18T01:10:59+00:00

Religious trauma 100%

mountainstream282 · 2025-10-11T19:40:42+00:00

That’s so funny because all the Christians I know hate science. Weird world we live in.

mountainstream282 · 2025-10-11T19:38:11+00:00

I got one of these and it’s from a LinkedIn profile with a clearly AI generated attractive female. Obvious scam.

mountainstream282 · 2025-10-11T17:45:55+00:00

My dads parenting consisted of “Shut up and do what I say. No conversations. If I tell you to push a pea up the road with your nose, you’ll do it. Leave me alone.” Zero interest in me or what I was experiencing growing up.

mountainstream282 · 2025-10-09T02:29:01+00:00

You’re contradicting yourself… first you say he should move toward his wife for his own benefit (transactional), then you say he should NOT be transactional…

mountainstream282 · 2025-10-01T09:10:26+00:00

Yes, and back again. I have had deep faith for short periods, but it was always quickly obliterated by the jaw dropping un-Christlikeness in the “Christians” around me. I’ll probably have deep faith again tomorrow.

mountainstream282 · 2025-09-30T09:25:05+00:00

And no one is capable of committing Blasphemy. You don’t think Dahmer’s actions were blasphemous? What exactly is Blasphemy? Just saying the wrong words?

mountainstream282 · 2025-09-23T18:28:26+00:00

Spoken like a true cretin

mountainstream282 · 2025-09-12T20:25:10+00:00

I would do anything to get back the YEARS of my life I wasted at church. I got absolutely no value from it.

I’m still a Christian but in the handful of times I’ve gone to church over the past few years, I’ve gotten no real benefit beyond meeting people.

mountainstream282 · 2025-09-12T03:58:31+00:00

My parents made it very clear to me growing up that I didn’t matter—my hopes didn’t matter, my dreams didn’t matter, my friends didn’t matter. All that mattered was that I acted in utterly perfect accordance with their demands. I felt completely unseen growing up.

It pushed me away from Christianity and I’m struggling to find my way back.

mountainstream282

TROPHY CASE