Or again, Christianity was reproached with its naked and hungry habits; with its sackcloth and dried peas.

But the next minute Christianity was being reproached with its pomp and its ritualism; its shrines of porphyry and its robes of gold.

It was abused for being too plain and for being too coloured.

Again Christianity had always been accused of restraining sexuality too much, when Bradlaugh the Malthusian discovered that it restrained it too little.

It is often accused in the same breath of prim respectability and of religious extravagance.