What is the phrase or word for person that are very faithful in their place of worship (the pejorative usually applies to persons who are showy to the point of hypocrisy), but that are anything but during the rest of the week?
If I recall there are some pretty derogatory ways of putting it (from both faith/less camps); I am looking for a relatively less mean, faith neutral pejorative (i.e. not some incendiary atheist phrase). The words that are somewhat forming in my head are something like "Sunday Christian" or "Someddays Faithful" or something like that.
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Among Catholics, there is the pejorative Cafeteria Catholic for those who selectively pick and choose which tenets of the faith they obey in their daily lives. Someone who attends Mass and says the catechisms on Sunday, yet still supports abortion rights and eats meat on Lent, is considered a hypocrite in the sense you offer by some other Catholics.
EDIT: Sunday Christian seems to be pretty official; as proof, there's even a Wikipedia article on the subject. The article offers other synonyms such as Sunday-morning Christian, Once-a-weeker, Chreasters (coined of Christmas and Easter [Christians]), Twice-a-years and Submarine Christians (so-called because they only surface a few times every year.)