Tag Archives: Hypocrisy

On Christians Who Devour the Poor

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2024

Richard Crashaw calls out those religious leaders who, like the pampered scribes attacked by Jesus, devour widows’ houses. We’ve got our own hypocritical Christians today.

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Spiritual Lessons from a Happy Hypocrite

By Robin Bates | Published: August 8, 2021

In Beerbohm’s story “The Happy Hypocrite,” we learn that to fake virtue can have unintended consequences.

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Merry Christmas (Not!)

By Robin Bates | Published: December 26, 2018

Wednesday Sardonic Catholic satirist Hilaire Belloc has the perfect response for our president’s latest tweet, not to mention for all those Christians hysterically complaining about “the war on Christmas.” First, Donald Trump: It’s a disgrace what’s happening in this country. But other than that, I wish everybody a merry Christmas. Here’s Belloc from his novel […]

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Moliere and Religious Hypocrites

By Robin Bates | Published: November 26, 2017

Moliere’s “Tartuffe” is a great satire of religious hypocrisy. It also shook up the 17th century French church in other ways and was banned.

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Jane Austen and “Occupy Wall Street”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 12, 2011

In “Mansfield Park” Jane Austen calls out the irresponsible wealthy in ways that the Occupy Wall Street protests would approve.

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