But it also makes me think of the handful of times that I've gone back to church in the last let's say ten years for various reasons.

Non-genuine reasons, I'll just put it that way, for various reasons that going back to a church I am always

struck by wow they there's so many people that are just like hey hi how are you

let me shake your hand. Where are you from?

What's your name? Like, how interested over here?

And it is a weird thing because, again, I grew up in it and it's not like any leadership was giving these

coordinated efforts of like, okay, this is what you're going to do

this is how you're going to reel a min it was baked into the philosophy of that

flavor of Christianity was like we want to be friendly we want to be welcoming we want to make

sure people feel good and feel like this is a family right so yeah it is I think that is a

good question of like where is the line between this is what the behavior is

and how much of it is.

Ooh, they were planning it all along versus this is them trying to be like,

thinking that they're trying to be nice and welcoming, right?

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