Idol (or idle) Traditions: Bow Down or be Punished

"Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary.  At last they are too often made into idols, and all must must bow down to them or be punished."

        -- J.C. Ryle, Anglican pastor in Britian during the 19th-century

Think... professional pastors, theater seating when we gather on the Lordsday, and 45-minute lectures (i.e. sermons)...