I see it as cruel on your part......To point out hypocrisy maybe cruel to some.
No, you missed my point, and now I have another one to make. The first point was that it is not hypocritical to preach abstinence and then find yourself caught up in the throws of passion, and afterwards realizing you have slipped up. It is sad not funny because of the humiliation the girl will then have to deal with. It is a cruel because it all comes down on this poor girl, where as the guy has control over the outcome of the whole thing and he gets no consequence for his lack of regard. I am sorry for such girls. I suppose seeing your enemy get caught in their own nesting site gives people some sort of tension relief that can make you giggle but I don't see it as funny, I never found slipping on a banana peal funny either, so
There is genuine religious hypocrisy, I am not trying to avoid that. What Jimmy Swaggart was doing was a great example. Here was this televangelist raking in millions while buying hookers and swindling the followers of his ministry. There have been numerous examples we could recollect, like Jim and Tammy Baker. I don't see it as cruel to point that sort of thing out, I see it as necessary to correct a bad situation. ... and this brings me to the second point. The "pointing out" must come from within the population of followers in order to be effective. Atheists mocking preachers does nothing, it is when their own congregation calls them on the carpet that an effective change takes place.
When, on this thread, have you seen a left winger change their position after a right winger calls them out, or vice versa? If it has happened, I don't remember it. I have seen right wingers call each other out and left wingers to the same on some of the other threads, it always has a powerful result. Hypocrisy is best dealt with by those within a particular group is my second point. Humor? no |
