God I love this article about religious hypocrisy

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Short, sweet, and to the point. And heck, I'm even an Agnostic, and these are my sentiments. Someone can make it clickable if they want.

http://www.evilbible.com/christians_are_hypocrites.htm

don't bother reading the first paragraph, i'll surmise it for you "christians are hypocrites" there I saved you lots of reading.
second paragraph: if you're divorced or married to somebody who is divorced you're a hypocrite.
third paragraph: you can't pray out loud or with a hat on
fourth paragraph.... more rantings that show he doesn't know what he's talking about, mixing christian and jewish laws etc.

I think it has a lot of great points. I've felt this way, but I like how this author articulated it. ESPECIALLY parts about selective believing, and ferociously ignoring the inconvenient or even barbaric parts of scripture.

but it says "this is christians" and then goes and quotes stuff from leviticus which is supposed to only apply to levites lol. it's just the most stupid nonsensical rant i have ever seen. she put about as much thought into that article as willy wonka put into his dogs balls falvoured lolly pop.

This is the first I've heard of that. I've heard it quoted in Sunday mass, and I've heard Christians quote it when talking about not getting tattoos.

In fact, what you just said was probably garbage.

yes i'm sure there are hypocritical people who call themselves christian. lots of them. but there are also lots who aren't, so what does the article prove? That just because you call yourself a christian doesn't make you less of a hypocrite? correct.

@CaptainTrips222: The article asserts that Christians are still under the Old Covenant, when it has quite clearly been superseded. Superseding the Old Covenant was most of the point of the New Covenant, not some obscure issue. It's like saying that because we had an amendment to the U.S. constitution prohibiting alcohol, alcohol is still illegal, completely ignoring the other amendment that revoked the first. The article not understanding this means that they are unlikely to be able to make any other decent points.

The divorce issue has nothing to do with the old testament. It's spelled out in the NT as the blog notes. The Catholics appear to be right on this one, yet southern christian states have the highest divorce rates.

The prayer in school one is also based on the words of Jesus. The longer list includes some OT but also NT passages from the apostles and Corinthians. Funny, if old, stuff.

Of course most christian mumblers will just say something like, "we are all sinners". You can't really shame them with hypocricy when they will just claim that Jesus redeems them anyway. It's magical thinking from top to bottom.

Christianity means whatever any individual "Christian" wants it to mean at the moment. This is called "Situational Doctrine". It means that if the "Christian" can find a Bible verse that speaks against something that he or she doesn't like, then he or she will swear that it is foundational doctrine.

But if the same Bible verse is quoted against the "Christian", then he or she will find some excuse (possibly another Bible verse) that mitigates the application of the first verse against him or her.

Or they just say something like "That's different", and with a smirk and a smile, they go on their merry way.

A lot of what people did in the Old Testament they did because they lived in a world where the neighboring nations all wanted to kill them.