Yet another Christian hypocrite

[jimmy eat jazz]

Do you feel like it's all Christians, and they are the only people who do it?

Nope, definitely not all Christians. Just those who are seeking to break down the wall separating Church and State via laws and public policies and who are seeking, via the same laws and public policies, to impose a narrow, intolerant religious dogma on society. These are mainly the politically active Evangelical Christians. I have no problem with any religious group or believer that is content to live their religious views and to allow others to live as they see fit. It is only those who are not content to let their religious beliefs inform their own lives but who seek further to impose those beliefs on others that I have problems with.

 

[bigb]

Let's see, the people I am referring to:

1. Actively work to limit the civil liberties/rights of gays and make enshrine discrimination against them in the legal code.
2. Actively work to limit women's reproductive rights and access to reproductive services.
3. Actively use public soapboxes to preach to and condemn society about its various sins,mostly related to sexual mores
4. Actively work to take over school boards so as to incorporate religious dogma and anti/pseudo science into public school curriculum
5. Actively agitate against Muslims and seek to limit their civil liberties/rights, including the building of places of worship
6. Actively support punitive immigration laws/policies
7. Actively seek to chip away at the wall separating church from state
8. Consistently portray themselves as the moral exemplars of society
9. Actively seek to wrest control of the political process from secular society
10. Are among this country's most ardent supporters of torture as a public policy
11. Believe (some of them at least) that Christians are destined to rule America.
12. Consistently seek to impose their religious beliefs on non-believers via law and policy.

While, I on the other hand, have written a post on a discussion board pointing out their hypocrisy and that, so many who claim to be our moral superiors, are not, in fact, such.

Yep, I am exactly the same as them.

Nice catch.

I'm not saying you are exactly like them. I pointed out the irony in you calling them hypocrites and telling them to shut up and leave others alone after complaining about ten doing the wake thing.
But keep overreacting with your "they're evil and out to get us" shtick. It's probably working great for you.

 

[RandyForRubio]

Gasp! Human beings are hypocrites!

My pastor always had a good retort to people who said they didn't go to church because there were too many hypocrites there. "Well there's always room for one more!"

Anyways, it's sad this guy cheated on his wife, and wrong. Taking joy in his mistakes...that's wrong too.

 

[Boris]

Gasp! Human beings are hypocrites!

My pastor always had a good retort to people who said they didn't go to church because there were too many hypocrites there. "Well there's always room for one more!"

Anyways, it's sad this guy cheated on his wife, and wrong. Taking joy in his mistakes...that's wrong too.

Great post. I told [MENTION=3213]Cunning Linguist[/MENTION] this yesterday and he got offended. One think I have noticed is every poster here is preachy and hypocritical. Jazzfanz has unlocked an aspect of humanity to me.

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

Gasp! Human beings are hypocrites!

My pastor always had a good retort to people who said they didn't go to church because there were too many hypocrites there. "Well there's always room for one more!"

Anyways, it's sad this guy cheated on his wife, and wrong. Taking joy in his mistakes...that's wrong too.

Yes, we are all hypocrites. But, not all of us hypocrites are seeking to impose our narrow-minded, intolerant religious beliefs on society (even if we don't follow them ourselves) via laws and policies justified by our claims or moral superiority owing to divine approbation. That's a critical and obvious distinction you overlook.

Anytime anyone or any group seeking power over others owing to claimed moral superiority/divine attribution, then we have an absolute right to critically examine not only their beliefs but the claimed divine authority for those beliefs. Pervasive acts of hypocrisy among such persons/groups signal to us the degree to which we should take such beliefs and claims of divine authority seriously.

I don't take joy in others' mistakes (or at least try not to), but I do take pleasure when those seeking power over others on the basis of divine authority are unmasked.

 

[Stoked]

Yes, we are all hypocrites. But, not all of us hypocrites are seeking to impose our narrow-minded, intolerant religious beliefs on society (even if we don't follow them ourselves) via laws and policies justified by our claims or moral superiority owing to divine approbation. That's a critical and obvious distinction you overlook.

Anytime anyone or any group seeking power over others owing to claimed moral superiority/divine attribution, then we have an absolute right to critically examine not only their beliefs but the claimed divine authority for those beliefs. Pervasive acts of hypocrisy among such persons/groups signal to us the degree to which we should take such beliefs and claims of divine authority seriously.

I don't take joy in others' mistakes (or at least try not to), but I do take pleasure when those seeking power over others on the basis of divine authority are unmasked.

Take out "religious" and yes they are.

But then that's your beef. Not that they are trying to control everything, as you're not railing against those people, but that they are doing it with religion. It's not the what, its the why.


Have fun JEJ.

 

[♪alt13]

You posting this and ending with this question is the exact thing you're complaining about. Nothing better than telling someone else to shut up and leave others alone immediately after posting a three paragraph essay about why they should do the same thing.

Telling people to stay out of other people's bedrooms is not the same thing as telling people what to do in their bedrooms. Not equivalent

 

[bigb]

Telling people to stay out of other people's bedrooms is not the same thing as telling people what to do in their bedrooms. Not equivalent

The only thing my comment was based on was the irony in the OP telling others to shut up and mind their own business after he railed on them. Not his beliefs. I couldn't care less what his thoughts about Christians are. Just the hypocrisy he exhibited.

 

[♪alt13]

The only thing my comment was based on was the irony in the OP telling others to shut up and mind their own business after he railed on them. Not his beliefs. I couldn't care less what his thoughts about Christians are. Just the hypocrisy he exhibited.

What in the op was hypocritical?

 

[bigb]

Maybe hypocritical wasn't quite the right word, but it's certainly ironic.

 

[RandyForRubio]

Yes, we are all hypocrites. But, not all of us hypocrites are seeking to impose our narrow-minded, intolerant religious beliefs on society (even if we don't follow them ourselves) via laws and policies justified by our claims or moral superiority owing to divine approbation. That's a critical and obvious distinction you overlook.

Anytime anyone or any group seeking power over others owing to claimed moral superiority/divine attribution, then we have an absolute right to critically examine not only their beliefs but the claimed divine authority for those beliefs. Pervasive acts of hypocrisy among such persons/groups signal to us the degree to which we should take such beliefs and claims of divine authority seriously.

I don't take joy in others' mistakes (or at least try not to), but I do take pleasure when those seeking power over others on the basis of divine authority are unmasked.

Was Mr. Summit trying to invoke policy on society via laws and politics?

 

[Harambe]

And you do it on a web forum because you do not have a megaphone and a bigger stage.

... theory...

Boris = DutchJazzer?