[abnry]

It's definitely a problem from a public health perspective, and that's why there should be legal measures to stop such large gatherings.

However, these types of articles are often used to cast aspersions on all Christians. That was essential the point of the parent comment. Why single out megachurches? You could find plenty of similar examples in the business, social and government realm of large groups continuing to meet.

[magduf]

>Why single out megachurches?

Why not? From my observations, megachurches tend to be very different from many other Christian churches, including in theology. Christians aren't all the same, but there are some definite things that many, if not most, megachurches have in common, that they don't share with other denominations. (Starting with "denominations", in fact: megachurches usually don't belong to one.)

[wolco]

For me the word mega in front of churches made me more concerned. Just because the crowds are so large.

The media's dislike for anything Christian makes this a two quadrant story.. possible three if the mega churches are in a red state.

[gumby]

> The media's dislike for anything Christian

Wait, what?

[whatshisface]

The phrase "the Media's stance" refers to the media as a whole, the average of all media. By definition the average will be between the least and the greatest, which means by definition the Media's stance on a topic will always be too P-slanted for Q-ists and too Q-slanted for P-ists.

[alharith]

Fun fact: by the popularized definition in the media, most of your Catholic and Orthodox churches would be "mega churches" as well, despite sharing little in common. They get lumped together statistically, however.

[dntrkv]

And there has been media coverage of those organizations. We should call all of them out.

Though going to church might be the worst of all options since church goers tend to skew more to the older side of the population.

[magduf]

>Though going to church might be the worst of all options since church goers tend to skew more to the older side of the population.

Actually, probably not, which is why "megachurches" is an important qualifier here. From my observations, megachurches tend heavily to be independent and evangelical, and tend to have much younger members. They also tend to have a lot of (Christian) rock music as part of the services. The old people don't join those churches; those people are still in the mainline Protestant churches they've been going to for many decades, which have traditional service, and don't preach to you that God loves rich people more.

[a3n]

I took "mega" to imply "right wing."