[FoRK] Believe it or not...
Luis Villa
<luis at tieguy.org> on
Thu Dec 13 18:22:48 PST 2007
Is there anything that is ever hypocrisy, under that definition?
On Dec 13, 2007 8:20 PM, Lion Kimbro <lionkimbro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 2:46 PM, Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I kind of like the whole hypocrisy in action thing. Lets face it,
> > nothing so shows a liar as professing the adherence to a loving god
> > and then acting in contradiction to that. Shows up brighter and
> > clearer than most any thing I can think of.
>
>
> Is it a hypocrisy, really?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Preachers say things like, "We're all human," or
> "We're all sinful," and stuff.
>
> They say, "Live like Christ," but the well understood
> assumption that the person knows that they're probably
> going to fail, and fall from that ideal. **And that's okay.**
> That's expected.
>
> So I don't see any hypocrisy there;
> Just holding ideals.
>
> I think it's great for people to hold ideals.
>
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