From a Christianity Today article on Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton:
Patricia had another epiphany of sorts while out of the country, this time in Vancouver where the TV movie was shot. One Sunday she attended a small Presbyterian church down the street from her hotel. Most of the congregants were elderly. The choir was made up of about six people who couldn't sing. They stopped the service to have a sermon aimed at the children, three of whom were misbehaving. Recalls Patricia, "I sat in that pew and my mind was going, 'This is ridiculous. These people! Why don't they do this or that? Do they think this is accomplishing anything?'"Then she stopped herself. Her condemnatory attitude suddenly became obvious. "I thought to myself, 'It's amazing how much you can sin just sitting quietly in a pew in church.' My thoughts were so judgmental and unloving. I just thought, 'You know, we really are hopeless. I mean, there's nothing in us that's righteous at any given moment.' Even if you have some kind of pure motive on one hand, just give yourself five seconds, you know?"

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