... wouldn't be caught dead within ten blocks of a church, and this, of course, makes you an authority on religion...

THANK you, that is exactly the phrase I have been struggling to find for several years! :~)

Scuse me, gotta go oppress, confuse, bamboozle, and swindle some more folks over at church... oh yeah, we're having a picnic to discuss a thinking-person's 4-year ministry course that I co-teach.... scripture, church history, doctrine, ethics, all that jazz-- gotta sharpen up my torture devices! :~)

~Susan