Reply #41: That's really messed up

[Lydia Leftcoast]

The fundie churches must be hurting if they have to bribe people to come to Easter services. It's known that they pad their membership rolls by counting everyone who has ever joined, even if they're no longer attending. (Mainstream churches have rules about when people have to be dropped from the rolls, mostly if they haven't attended for a certain period of time.)

For mainstream churches, Easter is the one time that non-attenders show up. It's the Sunday when they have to set up chairs and open the balconies.

My Episcopal parish is going to celebrate the day with gorgeous classical choral music accompanied by brass, flowers all over the place, lots of "alleluias," the Vidor Toccata as an organ postlude, and a brunch.

No gory stuff. We don't even do gore for Good Friday, and it's surely inappropriate for Easter, which is supposed to be a day of pure joy.