A sign on the side of a warehouse. We also saw a truck, it's side totally covered with the slogan 'Jesus Christ is Lord not a swear word'. Such signs are fairly liberally scattered about. No wonder politicians court the 'Religious Right', the four churches we went to were well attended, and with all ages too. And that in spite of the fact that only one of them was modern in the sense of having contemporary music. It was quite puzzling. How has America managed to remain 'backward' in this area? I thought that in the countryside it might have been because the church played a central role in the scattered communities, but why then is our English village church so poorly attended? Moreover, there are loads of different denominations in America, one for every personality as my cousin said.
I would like to be able to say that it is because they are all full of the Holy Spirit, but I'm not sure about that. The ones we attended were all pretty relaxed though, warm and friendly, with laughter in the air. And three out of four were decidedly old-fashioned by our standards with hymns and choruses decades old, in spite of overheads.
I found the whole subject thought-provoking.
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