Kimday 5: Megachurches on the Real Kimday

What better way to finish the first installment of the Kimday celebration than to visit the largest megachurch in America. Interesting to note that Texas is on the list 19 times, with Houston having 7 of those megachurches alone. I was going to rotate the pic above, but I sort of like the illusion of Praxis crawling towards the Lakewood sign. Too funny.

The tour was unbelievable. Really the place looks hardly different from the stadium where I saw the Rockets play and several 80s bands rock out. It even still smelled like grease, freon, and sweat. It has coffee shops, cafes, mission control, wings for every ministry under the sun. There's a "wall of champions" for those who have donated to the megavault, and there's a bookstore with a fashion section on what shoes to wear with what miniskirt and a women's section with such fascinating titles as this.

Oh, and in case you want to avoid long lines at the bookstore on Sunday, you can pick up Joel's book in 6 locations on the first floor alone (they are sold where the concession stands used to be--or still are).

I dunno. I hate to attack the man, but my first instinct is to become irritated, esp when I read about his Victoria Secret sermon (scroll down on the transcript). I feel like she's just a shell of a human, and he's her ventriloquist. Plus, his smile makes me uneasy. He just makes me uneasy, and I can't pinpoint it. It's not a vile disgust like those nutjobs you see who damage people daily, but I feel like he's doing some subtle damage. I just don't trust him, and I don't know why.

That church, too, wow...it kind of creeps me out in the way that buffets and large chunks of meat do.

Anyway, dropped Prax off at the airport and headed home to relax before going out for dinner at Mia Bellas. Then home for a movie and alone Kimtime. That, my friends, was the best way to end the Kimfest.