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Good post. I put it on facebook and twitter. I think most people would come just to see the Pope if he did some kind of “altar call.” They would be most likely going in idolatry to worship him. It would be just like meeting a celebrity to them.
I went as a counselor to a Pentecostal church camp this summer and it was brutal. Every service they had these ridiculously long altar calls that would last upwards of an hour. It seemed like the same kids went forward every time and they were always told that this altar call will be the one that gets you over the top. They were told that the previous days altar calls weren’t heart felt and they needed to come and do it right. I attempted to go and pray with some of them but some didn’t even know why they were up there they just went forward because their buddies had. The babbling prayers and repetitive music about drove me nuts so I left usually very early into the altar call. Also, I found that these kids were usually emotianal head cases (more so than other kids), they knew very little about scripture, and because there was so much emphasis on emotions their Christianity was just that.