RE: Murder mystery: what killed Christianity in Europe?
April 29, 2015 at 1:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2015 at 1:12 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 29, 2015 at 10:04 am)Stimbo Wrote: Here in the UK we caged it, basically. We made it respectable and so took away its teeth.
Yeah, you toss your problem across the pond.
(April 29, 2015 at 10:07 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Go to any megachurch in America and you see how evolution has taken its course. You hear rock music, witness pomp and pageantry, hear professional speakers offer soaring oratory and experience other razzle dazzle. Give Christianity its due. The followers of Jesus in America know how to put on a show. Typically, these megachurches offer many social services, such as singles mixers. As a businessman who studied marketing and business strategy in school, I have to stand in awe of the marketing genius.
Fanaticism mixed with unscrupulousness and a total disregard for one's image outside one's targeted audience can outdo any outward sign of real marketing genius.
Just as Christian marketing would be the envy of most corporate marketing, so the marketing challenges faced by the Islamic state would daunt any Christian sect, yet Islamic state's marketing successes would be the envy of any Christian sect.
