Fuck’s sake.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Having people run around speaking in tongues isn’t really something that most Christian denominations do. It’s specific to a couple. IIRC the big one is the Pentecostals. Snow Crash had a plot that centered around that, kinda took some digs at the Pentecostal church.

    googles

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_in_tongues

    Yeah, sounds like it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostalism

    With over 279 million classical Pentecostals worldwide, the movement is growing in many parts of the world, especially the Global South and Third World countries.[10][11][12][13][14]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity

    Christianity (/krɪstʃiˈænɪti/ or /krɪstiˈænɪti/) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. It is the world’s largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers, comprising around 31.2% of the world population.

    So you’re talking about a denomination that’s a little over 10% of Christianity. That’s not nothing, but it’s also not really representative.