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This so-called new religion is nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants designed to take away the money of fools. Now, let's say the Lord's Prayer forty times, but first let's pass the collection plate.
— Rev. Lovejoy · The Simpsons
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker dismisses a new religion as weird rituals and chants meant to relieve fools of their money. Then he announces forty recitations of the Lord's Prayer, with a collection plate first. The humor is the hypocrisy: the same charge fits his own routine.
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