The Death of Imagination

I think that that's a good way of putting it, yeah. Mega-churches are friendly, and provide a lot of services and comfort, but they simultaneously have pretty high standards, so you feel like you're part of something important. Also, I think having day-care, and weekly bible-study, and church youth group, and all of those activities can center one's life around church, so that it's easier to go to Sunday Service and do your tithing because you're getting so much more out of church than just one the morning of service a week.

I'm sure schlafmanko knows tons more about this, of course. Hopefully she'll comment here when she sees this. :)