Christianity and Hypocrisy: Christianity Doesn't Hold the Monopoly on Hypocrisy.

I've been thinking about this after reading on a friend's blog about a person who doesn't "buy" Christianity because of all the hypocrisy she's seen.

Christianity does not hold the monopoly on hypocrisy. For humans being a hypocrite pretty much comes with the territory. If you examine yourself honestly you'll find some time or another where you display some hypocrisy. Maybe you're blind to it. Maybe you think that you are a pretty open-minded person but one day someone does something that shocks you and all of a sudden you think "well at least I don't do THAT". You're judging. You've just gone from the supposed open-minded person that you sell yourself as being to now being a hypocrite. There are a million other examples (and much better ones, too).

It sucks that there is so much hypocrisy in the church. What sucks even more is that the hypocrites are the loudest. You'll never hear about the church down the street that quietly and humbly serves through a food pantry, a benevolence fund, transportation needs, etc. But you will hear about the congregation boycotting funerals and preaching hate to a local news network. You will hear about the preacher who was found with kiddie porn videos all over his computer. That you will definitely hear about. And then someone will declare, "See, all Christians are hypocrites."

I have my own personal experiences with Christianity and hypocrisy. My father took our family to church every Sunday, made us listen to incredibly boring arrangements of hymns and made us watch televangelists who mostly just spouted horrible misrepresentations of the Bible (i.e. God wants you to be wealthy so send me you're money and God will bless you with wealth.). We were at church on Wednesday nights and participated in a million events. But my father was secretly beating the crap out of my mother most days. We had to take her to emergency clinics and make up stupid stories about how she fell. And when she wasn't feeling up to going to church because her ribs were so badly bruised we'd have to tell people at church that she was sick or something else. So, please don't tell me about Christian hypocrisy.