[lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash"

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

At one of the largest churches where I live they do the speaking in tongues routine. It is 
one of those monstrously hugh suburban churchs with a theater and bowling alley and 
high-tech lights and sound. A few thousand in the congregation. No snakes though. 
They do have what looks like a hot tub behind a plexi-glass window for the full emersion 
baptism ritual.

John Thornton


> 
> >Wow, are you still in Mississippi?   Did you read my post?  My def of
> >middle class did not include the poor revivalists, but the very 3
> >bedroom 2 car "protestants" you refer to.  Perhaps the South (and a
> >many of the flyover states) have changed from your experience,
> >because I'm  talking about white middle to upper middle class 3, 4,
> >5, 6 and beyond bedroom home folks driving SUVs, Lexus and BMWs
> >crowding into the evangelical super-churches in urban/suburuban
> >metroplexes like Houston, Atlanta, DFW and beyond.
> 
> They don't handle snakes and speak in tongues at the megachurches, do 
> they? Aren't we talking about two different social sets and religious 
> practices?
> 
> Doug
> _______