machine-service

Updated: May 25, 2025

These, however, are but exceptions to the general Christian rule, viz.: that the Omniscient careth only for heart-service; and that, before Him, all mere lip-service or machine-service, is simply an abomination. A less innocent kind of praying is one of the religious humbugs of the bloody and cruel Sandwich Islands form of heathenism.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum - The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries,: Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages