Brief Overview - Christians Are Hypocrites: Most of us know individuals who claim to be “Christians”, but clearly don’t practice what they preach. Given this clear hypocrisy, why would anyone reasonably entertain playing a role in the “Christian Story”? To discover why even if the "story teller" might be personally flawed, the story itself might still be true, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
"...if I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."
" [My] purpose…is to transform theologians into anthropologists, lovers of God into lovers of man, candidates for the next world into students of this world…I negate the fantastic hypocrisy of theology and religion only in order to affirm the true nature of man."
"I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao‐Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Philippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking‐glass."
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fear, fraud, greed, imagination and poetry.
"The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful, and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
"There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood."
"There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom."
"There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is — in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree — it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime — the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt."
It is not the bible for much of the worlds population & those who claim it as their own select those verses that appeal to them while ignoring other verses. Fertile ground for hypocrisy.
You're asking the right questions, and now you want to dig a little deeper.
