(May 18, 2017 at 3:20 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: As compared to what exactly? Probably the vast majority of people are hypocrites, regardless of their religious beliefs or lack thereof.
As compared to those hypocrites, who don't claim to be following the will of an all-knowing god, with their eternal lives in the balance. I can be hypocritical all I want, as long as I'm discrete about it. And in most situations, there's very little at stake, even if the discrepancy between what I preach and what I actually think is brought to light. You can't hide your thoughts from your allegedly mind-reading idol, who - according to you - doesn't take kindly to those, who disregard his will, be in the privacy of their own homes, or their own minds.
What I'm saying is that the vast majority of christians (or, indeed - monotheists in general) do not really believe in what is the very core of their professed faith - that there is a god, who gives a sh*t about what anybody thinks.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
