Yes, I know exactly what you are talking about.
The thing to remember is that people are not perfect. Humans are weak and while some of us have an easy time keeping to the morals of our religion, many of us are not so easy in keeping to the code, so to speak.
That in and of itself wouldn't be the problem if these people remembered that they were imperfect and that they can't decide God's will nor can they cast the first stone. You can't teach by shaming others, you can't teach my intimidation with threats of hell. If you want to teach your religion to others, teach by example and be a good example and not cast judgement on others when you are just as human and just as imperfect yourself. If religious people bothered to read the parts of the bible that express that one must love their fellow man and remember that we are all as imperfect as the next, there wouldn't be so many qualms about religion.
Arrogance, ideological pride and stupidity run rampant within the human race. Sadly enough, the pure foundation of religion was built upon by the corrupt and powerful and spirituality has been stained by the inequities of man. Religion, in it's mainstream form, has become just another catalyst of this stupidity and quest for dominance.
Is it normal that I believe most religious people are hypocrites?
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Yes, I know exactly what you are talking about.
The thing to remember is that people are not perfect. Humans are weak and while some of us have an easy time keeping to the morals of our religion, many of us are not so easy in keeping to the code, so to speak.
That in and of itself wouldn't be the problem if these people remembered that they were imperfect and that they can't decide God's will nor can they cast the first stone. You can't teach by shaming others, you can't teach my intimidation with threats of hell. If you want to teach your religion to others, teach by example and be a good example and not cast judgement on others when you are just as human and just as imperfect yourself. If religious people bothered to read the parts of the bible that express that one must love their fellow man and remember that we are all as imperfect as the next, there wouldn't be so many qualms about religion.
Arrogance, ideological pride and stupidity run rampant within the human race. Sadly enough, the pure foundation of religion was built upon by the corrupt and powerful and spirituality has been stained by the inequities of man. Religion, in it's mainstream form, has become just another catalyst of this stupidity and quest for dominance.