Stupid things religious people say

[Fake Messiah]

Christians are celebrating the end of Hooters restaurants. Finally, that place where men sinfully looked at women will perish.

Also it seems that Christians can barely differentiate these waitresses from whores.

Hooters and the Future of the Church

Those of us who are traditionalist Christians have long said that the Hooters restaurant chain is morally bankrupt, but the time has come for it to be financially bankrupt too. Before we “family values” types take a victory lap, though, we should recognize that the chain—known for its scantily clad female servers and their wink and nod to male sexual appetites—is in trouble not because it’s too edgy but because it is not edgy enough. And that ought to tell us something about the future of American culture and the future of the church.

Hooters restaurant in my hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is an example of the chain’s typical business model “to sell just enough sex to be palatable to people like my Southern Baptist neighbors.”

If Hooters is indeed not long for this world, we should be glad. Hooters was built on the willingness of an abundance of men to ignore the fact that the women working there are human beings made in the image of God, not meat for inspection and consumption.

But we should take no solace in how these places are dying. The chain is not closing because a superior view of marriage and family and sexuality won the argument. In a real sense, Hooters is gone because the argument was so decisively lost.

Cultural engagement built on winking, aren’t-we-naughty transgression always requires escalation. If you live by carnality, you will die by carnality.

The Hooters parking lot down the road might be emptier than it used to be. But will your church’s lot be fuller? What if we offered a new picture to young women who’ve been told that their worth is measured in their sexual attractiveness and sexual availability?

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/0...ell-moore/

"What if we offered a new picture to young women who’ve been told that their worth is measured in their sexual attractiveness and sexual availability?" - women have already been offered a picture where their worth is not just measured in their sexual attractiveness but it was not in the church. Church is incapable of showing a picture of a woman who is not a human incubator and thus a sex slave.