Social hour is actually very necessary, not happening, our third spaces are dying and churches are one of them. Not that I'm not glad to a degree, but we need replacements because people come to the church for human connection, and then pick up the bullshit over time.

Hell I'm in the South and I have queer friends that still go to southern baptist churches "because there's food once a week" and "I get to be around people."

Watching Knives Out 3 triggered me. As a former Catholic, I was hit pretty hard by how the big bad was treating the church.

And thinking about it, yeah, that's exactly what they are. There are those who run a church like a little kingdom and create cults of personality.