The holidays are an obligatory performance where families buy each other gifts and pretend everything is perfect.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Religious people aren't immune to hypocrisy.
Je n’adore les biens, et sers à l’avarice,
Je n’aime les honneurs, et me les faut priser,
Je veux garder ma foi, et me la faut briser,
Je cherche la vertu, et ne trouve que vice!
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