Christianity - Hypocricy? Orly?

Before you read my article, if you decide to have a reasonable disagreement, you should probably read my Rules of Debate.

Once again I want to write other articles, but I feel I need to get to certain topics first (partially so I can build off them, just like the Rules of Debate). This article builds a bit off of Rule Zero in the RoD.

Where to begin...

Miriam Webster defines a Hypocrite as "a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings". If you say an act is wrong, but you commit the act yourself. If you get mad at somebody else for doing something, then say it's okay. This is plain and simple hypocricy.

Now of course, when somebody says "You shouldn't have killed him" about one person and "It's good that you killed him" about another, they are not necessarily hypocrites. If somebody murders someone( and you say they shouldn't have) and somebody experiences capital punishment (and you support them), there is a difference in each case. A difference can be the... um... difference between being a hypocrite or not. It's very pivotal on contradiction. It's most often based on a person's reasons.

To say violence is wrong is to put a tag on something vast. Sex isn't wrong, but premarital sex is. And even in the Bible there is nonmarital sex. The only 100% true standard I know of is what Jesus would do. Yet the problem with this is that we often don't know for sure what he might do. There is always a right thing to do in any situation. But two things can get in the way:
1. We don't know the right decision.
2. We don't want the right decision.

Here's something that bugs me. Fact is, that most of what people say they dislike, they have. I don't know why, nor do I have much of a theory. In the anime Trigun, Wolfwood says to Vash, "Whenever I look at you, I'm reminded about everything I hate about myself. It hurts." Yeah, that was a total burn, heh heh. But honestly, that's the closest I can come to understanding this.

And yes, I've hurt to find that things I disliked, I myself had.

Often people who yell don't judge are those judging you. People will get mad at you for not loving others and call you a jerk in the process. This concept isn't always true, but it seems to happen more than it should.


Okay, that's it for now. Maybe more soon... otherwise later. On the subject of judging and love ;)