Dick and Jane quietly stopped attending a suburban megachurch which preaches the gospel of personal prosperity. They were falling behind with their contribution pledge.
They’ve been visiting various congregations since they moved to a more affordable part of town.
Yesterday they sat in on the Easter service celebrated down the street from their new place.
Dick picked up a rosary left behind in his pew and wrapped it around his fingers, imitating the woman in front of him. He recalled wearing yamakas at friends’ bar mitvahs years earlier.
He and Jane ignored the donations basket as it was passed down the pew. They were just window-shopping and besides they didn’t stay for the whole service because they had brunch reservations near Dupont Circle.
Judging by cars they saw in the church lot, they figured that if the parishioners at St. Martin’s were praying for wealth and influence, they were saying the wrong prayers and singing the wrong songs.
Larry Chait
Love this new series.
Pat Shiplett
Thanks, Larry. It will be interesting to see how things will evolve for the Fallen Angels.
Jenny Hager
I like the way you are capturing the hypocrisy that, to me, seems so obvious in the behavior of some Republicans these days. As the recent Twitter post put it “Matt Gaetz is everything the Republicans were looking for in Hunter Biden.” That said, I don’t want to imply that I think Democrats are immune from not practicing what they preach.
Pat Shiplett
I agree, Jenny, that political hypocrisy is all too present. But it also seems that by not holding President Trump to the standards of honesty, family values and respect for the rule of law that the Republican Party has long claimed to represent, the GOP basically institutionalized hypocrisy.