Information and where I found the print

More information on anti-Methodist prejudice in William Hogarth’s time.

Ever since I first viewed William Hogarth’s Enthusiasm Delineated, I always laugh at how he depicted Methodists during their services.  As someone who grew up Methodist (left during my teenage years), this scene represents such a blatant and hilarious lie.  The Methodist church I knew represents the very definition of sedate to the point of stagnant.  In fact, that stagnant state comes from why I left the church.  Nothing against the people who worked there, I just felt unfulfilled.

However, if I did see women giving birth to rabbits, I would have stayed.