Question of the Day #45: Religious hypocrisy
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When you observe a religious person acting in a hypocritical fashion, how does it make you feel as a skeptic? Do you find it a funny reminder of one more reason why you reject religion, does it make you feel anger or pity, or does it give you confidence in your position and bolster your disbelief?
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I expect it, since most religious systems are helplessly self-contradictory. Whether I feel anger or pity depends on the extent to which that hypocrisy directly affects me.
I am with Zach on this one. When someone says, "look at Pat Robertson. He's such a hypocrite, because Jesus said to love your enemy," I generally argue that he is no hypocrite at all. It is only the reasonable christian or religious person, who assumes natural law, who is being any kind of a hypocrite.
I curiously study them, like a scientist observing some little-understood species in their native habitat. -JJ
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