Umm ... God's lovin' it?

Would you be more inclined to go to church if services came with a Big Mac and a side of fries? That's the idea behind McMass, a group whose goal is to put a McDonald's franchise in a church. [Click on the name for their video.]

The group, led by Paul Di Lucca, a creative director at the church branding agency Lux Dei design, has launched a page on the IndieGoGo crowdfunding site. He's looking to raise $1 million to build the first McDonald's church. 

The $1 million will go toward purchasing a franchise and construction. The group is currently looking for a church to partner with.  

"It's time for churches to engage with entrepreneurship," writes the group. "By combining a church and a McDonald's we can create a self-sustaining, community-engaged, popular church, and an unparalleled McDonald's restaurant."

Your reward for helping to bring McDonald's to a church near you? Depending on how much you donate, you could score anything from an "amen" to stickers and shirts with the hashtag #Feast4Jesus, to your name on a donor wall at the first McMass church. 

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Damien's note: I am more intrigued by the assertion in the video that three million people in the US leave the church annually. Or that 10,000 churches closed in the States in 2013. I would want to see where those stats came from and what they mean. For example, how many of the 3,000,000 who left one church simply joined another denomination? How many of those closed churches were storefront operations or had congregations of twenty or thirty people?

At any rate, the inevitable tasteless jokes are already out there:

Priest: The body of Christ.
Altar server: Do you want fries with that?

Do you want the Adam's McRib? How about an Eve's Baked Apple Pie?

What comes with the Angel Chipotle BBQ Bacon sandwich? An order of wings?