I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public

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213. The poster assumes, as this gospel Jesus clearly did, that they are doing it for attention.

And the schmucks, as this Jesus would have it, "have their reward in full." The reward is the attention, the social status, for both better and worse, acquired by their display. This Jesus was as contemptuous of it as most of the rest of us are, and for exactly the same reasons. He made exactly the same assumption about their motives as did the OP.

Now, I suppose it could be considered possible that the gospel Jesus was wrong in his clear assumptions. I just find it interesting that, at least on this issue, the gospel Jesus seems to take a position in favor of the less devout, and less evangelical. Though I suppose that shouldn't be surprising from the purveyor of a mystery religion who (fictional or merely fictionalized) seldom made any strong claims to any desire to evangelize for a religion, and often (as with the whole parable thing) seemed to be trying to do the exact opposite. The true meaning of things, as in all those things we call mystery religions, was to be deliberately reserved for the enlightened few.