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Why is the American version of Christianity literally just the McDonald's of religion? I'm thinking of evangelicalism and pentecostalism mainly. I'm a europoor and it's fucking hilarious, the televangelists, the lizardmen-looking preachers, the gigantic stadium-sized churches, people pretending to speak in tongues, muh jeebus, the blatantly obvious financial and emotional abuse going on, everything.

Like, is there a book that documents how all this shit came to be? How did it all spin out of control to this degree?

Why is the American version of Christianity literally just the McDonald's of religion? I'm thinking of evangelicalism and pentecostalism mainly. I'm a europoor and it's fucking hilarious, the televangelists, the lizardmen-looking preachers, the gigantic stadium-sized churches, people pretending to speak in tongues, muh jeebus, the blatantly obvious financial and emotional abuse going on, everything.

Like, is there a book that documents how all this shit came to be?

What book should I read to understand the whole burger evangelicalism/pentecostalism/charismatic phenomenon? I'm a europoor but I can't help but be fascinated by the sheer weirdness of it all.

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I live in the American South and I've met a shitload of evangelicals. They do not give the slightest fuck about tradition, books, or education in general. Most are openly hostile to such ideas. I don't understand how you can have such an uninformed opinion on American Protestants unless you're a European who's never met any.