It is yet another of the many paradoxes of Christianity’s legacy on our society that, even as it has defined for us - by & large - our sense of what is good & evil, it has also imbued in us a suspicion that those who parade their virtue might very well be whitened sepulchres. https://twitter.com/questingvole/status/1321946836458967042

Behind so many of our collective impulses and instincts, there lies a parable. #VirtueSignalling

“And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men.”

Collectively, we’re absolutely marinaded in this stuff. Even if we may not recognise it!