(during a prayer with music)

“I hate that they’re manipulating me.
I hate how they’re using music to make me feel something about the words.”

“No you don’t. You hate that they’re doing it badly.
You notice the incongruity because you don’t feel the same about the words,
or not as much, as you do about the music.”

“—which means they have to use the music to back up the cruddy words!”

(And these internal dialogues distract me from the words in the first place...)