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This thread is not about specific sins Christians love to hate, nor about sinless perfection, or masks. It is about the hypocrisy of many Christians regarding sin.
This is an Article by Frank Viola which appeared online in 2013.
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“Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.”
~ Philip Yancey, quoting a friend.
I grew up in a denomination that made homosexuality the gravest of all sins, trumping every other transgression (except murder, maybe).
Many of the people in that church were dutifully self-righteous when it came to certain sins. Those who didn’t commit the sins they deemed the worse (externally, that is) saw themselves as more “pure” than their fellow brethren who may have stumbled in those areas.
I regret to say that in my early years as a Christian, I adopted this same attitude. Ironically, these same people winked at the sins of gossip, slander, outbursts of rage, judging the motives of others, and lying. Excuses were routinely made in an attempt to justify these “lesser” sins (so the thinking went). In addition, most of us were monumentally disinterested and unmoved by things like poverty, racism, sexism, genocide, and homelessness.
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[Sin Metrics: The Sins that Christians Condemn & Excuse]
This is an Article by Frank Viola which appeared online in 2013.
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“Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.”
~ Philip Yancey, quoting a friend.
I grew up in a denomination that made homosexuality the gravest of all sins, trumping every other transgression (except murder, maybe).
Many of the people in that church were dutifully self-righteous when it came to certain sins. Those who didn’t commit the sins they deemed the worse (externally, that is) saw themselves as more “pure” than their fellow brethren who may have stumbled in those areas.
I regret to say that in my early years as a Christian, I adopted this same attitude. Ironically, these same people winked at the sins of gossip, slander, outbursts of rage, judging the motives of others, and lying. Excuses were routinely made in an attempt to justify these “lesser” sins (so the thinking went). In addition, most of us were monumentally disinterested and unmoved by things like poverty, racism, sexism, genocide, and homelessness.
Continued in article
[Sin Metrics: The Sins that Christians Condemn & Excuse]