CHRISTIAN HYPOCRISYCHRISTIAN HYPOCRISY provides Christians one rather different way in which they can assess their own level of hypocrisy. There are probably very few of us with lily-white hands.
"There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others." Michel de Montaigne
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Andre Berthiaume
"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." - William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)
Write down: The first, most of us can do without too much trouble. The second is a little harder. If one dared, one might ask a few people to write down for us how they see us, and see how well it matches. I think we might be in for a few shocks! And the last? Well now, that's really hard. It takes spiritual enlightenment to do that, and it's something we should perhaps regularly do before our Lord. After all, He had the strongest condemnation for those in whom 1 and 3 do not even vaguely match. "By their fruits you shall know them." "Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue." Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld, (1613-1680) CHRISTIAN HYPOCRISYSomething that always astonishes me is how Christians find fault with playing Bridge, for example, but Chess is fine. Football is fine, but dancing is straight from the Devil. Fishing on the Sunday is definitely OUT, but a long stressful day of church activities, whilst certainly no day of rest, is fine.One could go on. Beer is terrible but Coca cola is no problem. The odd clandestine affair is okay, but a faithful homosexual relationship is the height of sin. Drunkness is the height of sin, but glutony and obesity are just fine. St Paul teaches: The body is the temple of Holy Spirit." I say Amen to that. Whether we eat or drink, are celebat or enjoy sex, how we treat the Sabbath, may everything be as unto the Lord.
Any good people out there?"Be good and you will be lonesome." Mark Twain, (1835-1910) "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." Oscar Wilde Most folk just love the way Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde love to poke fun at all and sundry, and mostly their barbs hit the nail on the head. Why on earth is he poking fun at "good people"? Stuffy religious people. At first glance I rejected his wry comment, obviously I'm far too stuffy!, until I saw the real meaning behind it: If I think I am "good", then I am the only good person on the planet. Of course I'll be lonesome. For all have sinned, and fallen short... me too, alas. You? A sinner in need of a saviour? Or too good to be true?!! Hypocrisy Christians flaunt the truth of the sinful of all humans, Believer and un-Believer alike.
"This above all: To thine own self be true, for it must follow as dost the night the day, that canst not then be false to any man." Hamlet.
CHIROPRACTIC COALFACECHRISTIAN HYPOCRISYOne of the great joys of my life is thirty years under the belt as a chiropractor. Folk have asked if I have returned to my native South Africa to retire. Impossible! I have had, and continue to have such pleasure from treating the multitude of conditions from which we humans suffer.Imagine only yesterday the pleasure at hearing from a young mother that after only two treatments, her colicky 8 week old baby has gone from five hours a day of hollering to only one. Do you know the rule of three, Mum? Or from an 82 year old woman that the pain in the front of her thigh from a spondylolysthesis in her back has completely gone. Retire? Impossible! This is the best of my many hobbies. How could I possibly stop? But the arthritic hip of an old friend is going to be a challenge. The neurosurgeon said he needed a back op, but the twit didn't examine my friend's hip! Hypocritical? Christian hypocrisy? Judgemental? Nope, we're all twits periodically in the medical game, and with hindsight I have hung my head periodically too. How could I possibly not have considered that the weakness in a patients quadriceps muscle could have been caused by diabetes? I forgot the all important question: can you get it up? Do you know what Chiropractic Iatrogenic Illness is? I've caused my own share!
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