‘but I don’t recall her ever claiming she was perfect and without fault.’
I find the ‘on high’ tone hypocritical in the extreme, but thats just me.
Anyone who says anything judgemental can be viewed as hypocritical by someone willing to look hard enough, that doesn’t mean that what is stated by the person is wrong.
I guy who’s lifetime addicted to drugs tells a child to not do drugs.... are they hypocritical? Or are they speaking from experience of where they are or have been and saying don’t make my mistakes?
Or is the person who’s never touched a drug in their life being hypocritical when tehy tell a child not to do drugs, because they have no personal experience to back up their lecture?
If the message is bad fine, but to say the message is invalid, not because its worng, but because the person delivering it is a flawed (as we all are) human being, well that just makes no sense.
Attacking the messenger or discounting the message because of who the messenger is is not always the wisest path.