+50 Those "altar calls" with the guilt trips, emotional stories, and hypnotic synth music in the background manipulate kids and teens to have a religious experience they never had on their own. If God is really alive and active, He shouldn't need such gimmicks to produce real experiences and emotional responses in people, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I get strong emotions from watching movies. Movies are now deities. O praise be to ye, Birdemic.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yea, we are emotionally manipulated by a lot of things. But most of these things do not claim to be eternal and universal truth without conclusive evidence to back them up

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That isn't really what the majority of alter calls are about... It is giving people the opportunity to come (although they have the opportunity at any time), but if they don't go to the altar, they aren't going to go to hell for it. I didn't go to the alter during alter call, I went in the middle of a guest group singing.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If God were to be real, I can definitely say alter calls weren't something He came up with.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm a really religious person, and I didn't get that way because of guilt trips or synth music. It was just me listening to what I had been telling myself I wanted, praying, and knowing what I was feeling. One of the times that I love God most is in that time in the morning, before I stick my head out from the covers and I'm just lying there, wrapped in my blankets and thinking. Maybe that was a little too much information, but I just wanted to show that not everyone is religious because they were hypnotized.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I always thought that was the Church's fault, not God himself, if he exists.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I personally hate them which is why I don't go to my youth group, but each to their own.

by Anonymous 11 years ago