I personally don't think God gives 2 shits about the building, IMO. And if she was really surprised by a congregation's lack of faith... there are a ton of stories I could tell. It's actually becoming more and more common for people, especially those who have never had their faith tested, to not actually be able to articulate their beliefs, much less express their faith outwardly. It's not a surprising thing at all. Certainly not rising to the level of surreal.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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