(October 6, 2023 at 10:36 am)Nanny Wrote: Does this shouting tactic work with believers? Do people like to feel awful? How does this stuff work?
Sermons are like every other performing art and all other oratory: there is room for the fire-and-brimstone genre as well as the Jesus-meek-and-mild-genre. Sometimes I like pop, sometimes I like metal.
When I was a Christian, I could sometimes find the shouty sermons rousing. At other times they were just annoying. A lot depended upon the skill of the speaker and my personal context. When you listen to multiple sermons a week, it's nice to have some tonal variety to prevent boredom.
