(May 15, 2017 at 4:12 pm)thool Wrote: I've always thought that being a teacher meant that you have the skills and knowledge to help others grow in the subject area. If people benefited despite this hypocrisy, then you could argue that the fault was irrelevant. But this is someone who is leading a belief system based upon values, and the guy with the answers can't do it. He is not cut out for the job.
That's Christianity. It was made by hypocrites for hypocrites. Jesus himself was nothing more then a hypocrite. Jesus condemns people to hell for calling others "fools" although he engages in the practice himself: in Matthew 23:17 and Luke 11:40 he refers to others as fools. Jesus should be sent to hell by his own merit. Or he says that people should respect their parents but he denounces his own mother. Jesus tells people that they should not tell lies and yet he himself tells many lies. Like when he was crucified he lied to the thief on the cross when he told him that, "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise." How could they have entered paradise that day when Jesus lay in the tomb for three days? And he said he would lie in a grave three days and three nights and yet he was not even 2 whole days in the grave. And so on.
It seems that Christians see God, Jesus and clergy as to be exempt from morality and allowed to do whatever strikes their fancy.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
