“There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
– Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 5. Miss Maudie Atkinson to Scout about religious fanatacism. She is talking about Boo Radley’s father and his foot-washing Baptists who consider any type of pleasure to be a sin and even criticize Maudie for working in her garden to make it pretty. The hypocrisy of being outwardly religious but not showing compassion is one of the novel’s themes.