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1. :frogc00l: :amespin: :njp: :niggy_dab: yeet :pogfish: :ina_hammer: :awoodance: (yeetlibs@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 00:20:27 JST :frogc00l: :amespin: :njp: :niggy_dab: yeet :pogfish: :ina_hammer: :awoodance:
   I don't mind a poor church or a nonaesthetic building, it makes the grand cathedrals all the more special. It's a bit of a loaded meme here two suburban/rural churches won't compare to grand cathedrals most of the time
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   • Paultron-3030 (paultron@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 00:20:25 JST Paultron-3030

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     @YeetLibs @SuperSnekFriend if you ever end up there you can visit Laffey and Yorktown
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   • ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️ (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 00:20:26 JST ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️

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     @YeetLibs The poor aesthetic came from the harsh economic reality faced by American Protestants, especially Reformed, Methodists, and Baptists. There are some beautiful Protestant churches though, even in America. Have you been to Charleston? That historic city has plenty of pretty Protestant churches, like First Scots Presbytarian Church, first pic.*
     
     * Protestant and orthodox at the time of construction. I can't vouch for the theological purity of the church now.
     
     Edit: Looking through the First Scots website, they seem to be decent with the fundamentals, thankfully. Episcopalians are FUBAR'd and I don't need to tell you that.
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     @SuperSnekFriend I'd like to go to Charleston
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     HOWEVER
     here is a church in a no name town ft Laramie Ohio that is absolutely stunning inside and out only for the glory of God. It also houses a fully body relic of a Saint that there is not much known about
   • ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️ (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 00:20:36 JST ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️

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     @Paultron @YeetLibs Missed my chance, because there was so much to do in that city. Been to the Citadel and Fort Sumter though.
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   • Granwalder (granwalder@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 00:21:40 JST Granwalder

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     @YeetLibs The Holy Cross Church in Berlin. as a grander newly built prot church
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   • Granwalder (granwalder@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 00:21:41 JST Granwalder

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     @YeetLibs
   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:15 JST 

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     @Pawlicker @SuperSnekFriend @YeetLibs Is scientology still a thing? Last time I've head of them they were still made fun of in South Park.
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:16 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @SuperSnekFriend @YeetLibs do you ever notice why kingdom halls keep closing near you? They are in serious decline and can't shake the doomsday cult image
     
     Probably harder than scientology given they have more locations
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:17 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @SuperSnekFriend @YeetLibs but most importantly they've been selling off kingdom halls as membership declined and financial issues mount.
     
     https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/b8mvni/over_9_million_worth_of_kingdom_halls_for_sale_in/
     
     Many became real churches for cash strapped congregations that JW cried about.
     https://old.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/l078sg/kingdom_hall_sold_to_baptist_church_to_help/
   • ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️ (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:17 JST ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️

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     @Pawlicker @YeetLibs Finally, a good news whitepill! Thanks for this!
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:18 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @SuperSnekFriend @YeetLibs they've had multiple former members literally go postal, bottlegate, the pedo scandal where leadership had a secret database of pedos, and more.
   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:19 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @SuperSnekFriend @YeetLibs kingdom halls: built like McDonald's restaurants
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   • ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️ (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:19 JST ❄️:padoru: SantaSnekFriend :padoru:❄️

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     @Pawlicker @YeetLibs Jehovah Witnesses are another can worms entirely. Have they ever recovered from their anti-pope getting arrested for heavy corruption and fraud?
   • 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:28:38 JST 7666

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     @mint @Pawlicker @SuperSnekFriend @YeetLibs Someone hasn't torched Gold Base yet, so yep.
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   • 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:52:21 JST 7666

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     @mint @Pawlicker @SuperSnekFriend @YeetLibs This place is nuts, by the way. I went for a little stroll on street view because Gold Base is split by a public road going right through the middle. You can see for yourself by punching in 19712 Gilman Springs Road.
     
     - License plate reader?
     - Cameras, lights, fences, motion sensors out the ass.
     - Someone casually watching the traffic.
     - More high end defenses.
     - Very beefy entrances.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 03:18:47 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @YeetLibs This building accounts for about 80% of my respect for the mormons

     Everyone wants cathedrals but they're the only ones who went to the frontier and put in the 250 years of handiwork required

     (also interesting that their modern work is modern and ugly.....hmmmm much to learn)

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 03:27:39 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @YeetLibs Look past the "Mormon" aspect and see them as religious Americans. Their work, for all their weirdness, is extremely cool and underappreciated today.

     Everyone else can say "aw we're too impoverished and poor to build a giant monument of worship to our god"

     These kooky fags WALKED across america - not wagoned, not rode, WALKED AN ACTUAL HANDCART LIKE VIETNAMESE PEASANTS - and cut out giant blocks of granite by hand to start building this thing.

     They knew they wouldn't complete it in their lifetimes, or even their children's, maybe grandchildren's, but they did the work anyway.