"what a rip off. I can get more substance from a free episcopal sermon."
LOL. Charging admission: reminds me of days growing up in the RCC.
The priest held a fund drive to put "AC" in the church (we needed it!)
and then when he got the dough he bought two big fans and
explained that air conditioning means: "any conditioning of the air..."
My grandfather (always sat at the very back pew) told me that
when the priest would pray "dominus vobiscum" during the mass, he
was actually saying "Dominic, go frisk 'em" to the altar boy.