“My neighbor won’t stop praying for me. What should I do?”
You’re probably a normal person, so you’ve likely never had such a narcissistic and morally inverted thought. Even if you did, you certainly never bothered writing into The New York Times about it, asking for advice.
However, your average reader of The Times is not a normal person. They’re middle-aged, single, just affluent enough to know what they’re missing out on, and making up for it by self-righteously inducing misery in everyone around them. So of course they’re mad their kind old neighbor prays for them — and they want the world to know it.
Per The Times’ holiday-themed advice column:
“I have an 85-year-old neighbor who is a sweet friend and caring person. My issue is that she is very religious and I’m not at all. She prays for me and says it in person, texts and emails for even the most…
