It Must Be Derned Hard Work, Boasting Constantly to the Unsaved About What a Good Christian You Are ...

Has anyone ever seen a "Christian" (i.e., those who love the preaching more than the testifying by example) come forward to explain why "Christians" rush to do the opposite of Jesus's teachings while proclaiming their actions as good deeds?

Is humanity tiring just a little of watching "Christians" fill a world in dire need of compassion and tangible aid with nothing but their self-righteous hypocrisy and televangelism? We don't even need to mention the trillion-dollar debacle of destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan to illustrate the point:

... right wing evangelical fanatics like to point to states like "liberal" Massachusetts, holding it up as some sort of Sodom and Gomorrah. To the contrary, Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the country at 2.4 per 1,000 population.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the states with the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt, where they exceed by 50% the national average of 4.2 per thousand people. The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North and South Carolina, Florida, Arizona and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast -- where allegedly amoral, faithless, Volvo-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, NY Times-reading lefties are found -- were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Rhode Island. [emphasis added]

Perhaps these born-again Christians should actually practice what they preach. Family values? Now that's a joke.

(Read the full post here: The Ostroy Report )

The examples of the inability of "Christians" to conceive of what the original Christians were about are limitless:

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

— Matthew 25:40, KJV

Not included in the Gospels, but heeded to the letter just the same by all good "Christians", is a missing mystery verse that obviously overrides the Gospels:

Now go therefore and, in the name of Economics, find among your countrymen those that you deem unworthy — that is, the poor, the sick, the unemployed, the ethnically or racially different, the disabled, the mentally ill, or those you consider politically incompatible — and deprive as many of them of access to health care as you possibly can.

— From the Apocrypha? Newt Gingrich's Contract on America?
The Charter of the Southern Baptist Convention?
The Halliburton/Enron/Blackwater Business Plan?
The Project for the New American Century to
Weaken and Bankrupt the American People in Ways
Even al-Qaeda Could Never Have Dreamed of?

How does the "Christian" deity overlook such hypocrisy? No classical deity, not even an Olympian, would have such chutzpah.
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The Coming Religious Reconstruction, as Forecast Nearly a Century Ago

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

So, apparently the reactionary neo-Christian Birther Movement will have to rely exclusively on the "Rapture" to pull its members' chestnuts out of the fires they've set?
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How Pretending to "Debate" Points of Christian Dogma Diverts Attention from Making Endless War

Wondering how self-styled "Christians" manage to overlook Jesus's teachings on peace, love, and nonviolence — the very teachings that once swelled the ranks with devout converts — in favor of ad hominem attacks, sophistry, illogic, veiled racism, intolerance, and endless discussions about fine points of Christian dogma?

Do you find it jarring that so many "Christians" can fervently support American-led wars that have killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, destroyed that age-old culture's social fabric far beyond what Saddam Hussein had done, and displaced an estimated 2-3 million Iraqis, bankrupting the United States in the process? How do these "Christians" do things that the man they claim to emulate would never do?

Were you expecting at least one or two of their number to acknowledge a few of these contradictions?

You're not alone.

Welcome to Planet Random, where Christians have been displaced by "Christians", where political and social prejudices masquerade as divine revelation. Here the cognitive tensions the rest of us feel cannot be resolved by matching behavior with the original teachings of Christianity. Anyone who has attempted to reason with "Christians" knows that discrepancies are revered as indictments of "liberalism" or "secular humanism" or some other Other.

We've all watched those who exult in irrationality slough off the discredit they bring on themselves, as though it were a minor point. They drive many who were raised Christian to disillusionment. They ultimately leave the faith and seek consistency in less violent religions or in secularism: Buddhism, paganism, New Age pantheism or, not incomprehensibly, atheism.

It's as though the Christians of the Hypocrisy feared that their opponents and detractors would fade from view if they did not keep them stirred up. If the ardor of hedonists, infidels, and evil-doing atheists is not boosted continually by "Christian" apologists and self-appointed oracles, against whom will evangelicals array themselves? What will become of their raison d'être?

Explicit explanations are hard to come by. Fortunately, illustrations are not. There are a plethora of sites that expose implicit "Christian" rationales. They are marvels of temporizing ingenuity.

Below are a few to get you started. Their blogrolls will take you ever deeper into the feudal Christian mentality that ignores the actual sufferings of those of their countrymen who are without health care insurance, incomes, or options other than bankruptcy in the wake of two terms of the ruinous "Christian" icon of Shock & Awe whom they put into the White House — twice.

See how many internal contradictions you can find with even a cursory reading and a passing knowledge of Christian principles and doctrines. Be the first on your block to hit triple digits in under an hour.

• Why Faith? (it's the Why Hypocrisy? that doesn't get answered)
• Christian Apologetics: Life & Doctrine (How many of us debate whether the Sun exists? If there were doubts about the Sun, they could resolved by objective measurement. Not so, apparently, with Christianity.)

• Does God Exist? The Biola Christian Apologetics Program (still more Christian apologetics, the omnipresence of which contradicts ipso facto the very premise they try to demonstrate)
• Eye of Polyphemus: Why I am a Christian — What I believe
  (A typical example of a tiresome, self-obsessed neo-Christian genre. Why should anyone care what this born-again blogger believes, other than for the sheer entertainment value of seeing yet another "Christian" make a mockery of Jesus's teachings?)

Please post any exceptional links to the mother lode of neo-Christian delusion you come upon! (Do, however, be selective. Post only exceptional instances of hypocrisy, illiteracy, political sophistry, Beckian emotivity, and tendentious circular reasoning. If we were to link to even 1% of those, the list would stretch down into the infernal nether regions.)

The New Christianity: Oblivion-bound via holy hypocrisy

That eternal mystery of blatantly blind hypocrisy in holier-than-thou quests, as questioned by SodaHead:

Why are Christians pro-war, pro-torture, pro-death penalty, pro-bigotry, and anti-environment?

Do Christians still claim to follow Jesus?

		Christians believe whatever thier religous leader tells them.
		Christians are just following the Bible when they resort to crude language.
		Not all Christians think the same.
		It is only the Christian right that has turned its back to Jesus.
	None of the above