Did you not read anything that I wrote that you replied to? Go to most of the modern day "emergent" non-denominational churches and it looks like a concert meets a stand up comedy show meets a hipster coffee shop get together. You're right, the early Christians would have felt much different given true persecution but at least they were focused in real faith and prayer and not a show for the sake of a show.

I think that this video sums it up pretty well.....



Don't even get me started on the Catholic church and all of the scandals and infiltration by pedophiles and such. It isn't because I feel personal pressure, it is because the church seems to have completely lost its way for a good majority of the Christian world and the secular world has gotten much worse. Herod the Great might have died from necrophilia induced disease, but nowadays we probably have hundreds of evil underground websites filled with sick people pleasuring themselves to such things in the privacy of their own home. How can you say that this era is truly better than any other time?