Worthless degrees at some Christian universities.

[Rev. Rye]

All the students were required to attend chapel once per week. Chapel lasted for about 45 minutes-1 hour. She used to sit in what everyone called Hell Row (the last pew) and watch movies on her iPod.

This reminds me of a novella I recently read by Philip Roth. In it, a Jewish student goes to a college wherein he is required to attend chapel at least 40 times before graduation. Of course, in addition to being Jewish, he's long since stopped believing in God. And, in an attempt at being inclusive to the many different denominations of Christianity that they would have imagined attending, the "chapel" services were essentially extremely bland, wishy-washy moral instruction seminars, and so, he stopped going. After having an argument with his college dean about it, including the merits of Bertrand Russell, he learns from another student that people usually just pay off suckers $2 a pop (about $20 in today's money) to go in their place.

For what it's worth, the book is called Indignation.