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''Creeping Jesus'' is a derogative Hiberno-English term to describe a Roman Catholic seeking to make a public display of religiosity in a manner which seems hypocritical and simply for show.〔http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definitions/creeping%20Jesus〕 ==Origins of term== The origins of the term remain unclear. One possible meaning is of someone who creeps around a packed church to pray at each of the Stations of the Cross hanging on the walls with the intention that everyone in the pews can see him doing so, as if to say "notice how religious I am". It is used in a rather different sense in William Blake's poem ''The Everlasting Gospel'': :If he had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus, :He'd have done anything to please us: :Gone sneaking into synagogues :And not us’d the Elders and Priests like dogs :But humble as a lamb or ass :Obey’d Himself to Caiaphas.〔(58. The Everlasting Gospel by William Blake. Nicholson & Lee, eds. 1917. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creeping Jesus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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