Anti-Church

Imagine an anti-church. What would it look like? Skulls and devil horns on the wall? Pornography in the pews? Instead of holy communion maybe everyone gets in line for heroine injections? Loud pulsing music shaking the walls?

Church is a place to be reminded of God so that we may worship and align our hearts and minds with Him—thus, an anti-church would be a place to distract us and pull us away from God's presence so that we may worship anything BUT our loving creator in heaven.

The first paragraph describes something similar to a rave, which is certainly a sort of anti-church, but most people here and now, including non-Christians, would be repulsed by a rave. In fact, it would likely have the opposite of the desired effect. So maybe a rave would be one house of Satan but how does he reach the masses that are not yet so subverted?

I walked into one of these anti-churches recently. Instead of black walls with skulls it was illuminated a bright white, with pictures of smiling faces. Instead of heroine there were soft drinks and candy. Instead of pornography there were fashion magazines. Instead of loud pulsing music there was soft pulsing music. During my brief visit to a Target Superstore I almost forgot that God existed.