parson-worship

Updated: May 23, 2025

I think of the imbecilities in which the repressed instinct has sought its pitiful baffled release, of the adulation lavished on a parrot, a cat, a lap-dog; or of the emotional "religion," the parson-worship, on which every fool is clever enough to sharpen his wit.

A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden - Sex and Common-Sense