Online religions vs in person religions

submitted by trident765 from self.nonmorons

One thing I am wondering is if in-person religious gatherings would gain more traction than online ones.

You may start a website about your religious ideas and conclude that since there is no online interest, this means that no one is interested period. But there is a key difference between online and in person religious gatherings that makes me wonder if this is really a valid conclusion to make.

I think part of the reason people attend religious gatherings is that they crave the human connection. They want to see people face-to-face, meet people they can have over for dinner, etc., and you don't get this online.

Fschmidt, since you are a rich guy maybe you can get some real estate in a busy area of where you live, and start a "Mikraite Center", and hold Old Testament reading there. I think the sign alone should attract some people. And I know for a fact there are lots of lots of Jews that dislike the racism of Judaism but still want a religion to practice, so Mikraite should be an attractive religion to them.

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I did not know @fschmidt started his own religion.

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I used to be active on meetup.com attending meetups and trying to organize my own. It didn't work. People will appear more friendly in person than on the anonymous internet, but they won't follow through on anything. Unless one is very charismatic, it is impossible to get people to do anything, like even show up to a meetup.

Members of modern culture are just completely useless. Probably the best hope for having some kind of in-person effect is through a mosque with the backing of at least one respected person there.