Post #1679214

I had a Orthodox Serbian coworker talking about the formation of the Orthodox church and he asked me. "The US is predominantly Evangelical?" except in very broken German but that's irrelevant. Just know this conversation wasn't in English and it's not a direct quote. And I thought about all the different sects of evangelicalism that exist in the USA. I dated a Irish roman catholic, don't come for me for what I am about to say but. I have met Catholics, Evangelicals and Ortodox Christians in Europe. I have met enough Muslims to hear Romeo and Julietesque stories about a Sunni and a Shiite getting together. Europe is DIVERSE but I still think about all of these absurd sects. And I realize something America has applied Capitalist Logic to Christianity. You walk into a US grocery store and are immediately overwhelmed by the choice but if you look closely at all of these colorful bags of cereal, all of them, every single one are just Cheerios. Chip aisle the same. All of these are just Nacho Chips. Shampoo aisle the same. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. America has offered, once again, the illusion of choice. The illusion that the first ammendmet allows for something other than Evangelicalism. America offers the illusion of choice, of diversity, when all that these offshoots of sectarianism are, is a shittier offbrand bag of Doritos.