FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ WHO ARE YOU CALLING A HYPOCRITE? ~ 29 November 2015

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

 

WHO ARE YOU CALLING A HYPOCRITE?

I always chuckle a little when I must sit through someone's "sermon" on why he/she doesn't ever darken the door of a church. Invariably at the top of the list of reasons given for not attending is something about the church being so full of hypocrites. You know, those people who affect virtues and qualities they don't have ... religious fakes.

The humor in this line of argument rests not so much in the fact that I never hear anything original, but rather in the facts surrounding the genesis of the word hypocrite. It was a term applied to the ancient Greek actors who wore masks in order to convey to the audience certain qualities and emotions. The actor hid behind the mask and the mask projected the necessary image.

In reality, a hypocrite is anyone who wears a mask hiding the true self while projecting an image for the benefit of the "audience". As I see it, that makes us all hypocrites! We all hide behind masks pretty consistently. How often, for instance, do we observe our hurting friends struggling to keep the "coat hanger" smile in place?

Yes, when two people stand eyeball-to-eyeball, it's one hypocrite starin' at another! The guy who won't go to church because it's full of hypocrites is not being completely honest. What he really means is that he prefers secular hypocrisy to religious hypocrisy. It's sort of like the smoker's preference for a particular brand of cigarettes.

CDR Thomas E. Braithwaite, CHC, USN

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Fai Mao, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

Thanks for sharing the link.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, dp0622, and happy one year anniversary at FR.

A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome, Twinkie...a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

[Kathy in Alaska]

He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.

G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.

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Hi Everybody!

((((HUGS))))

[Kathy in Alaska]

73 yard TD...Notre Dame! What a perfect pass.

[Publius]

Hiya.

(HUGS)

Lots of good listening this weekend.

[Kathy in Alaska]

God Bless our military men and women who have given their all.

Thanks, unique.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Military Families, for your service to our country.

John Conlee ~ They Also Serve

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Well, you KNOW how much I like acapella sing. I will be enjoying this. :-)

[ConorMacNessa]

Outstanding! I'm on my way up the spiral staircase to Boudoir MacNessa to watch in comfort.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Glad you are safely home, Pro. Did you finish sister’s “To-Do” list?

Pretty cool about lunching with both kids. And then to top it off, taking HilarywithoneL to the gun range and introducing her to her Christmas present. Is it pink?

Good Thanksgiving here. My brother is passing thru on his way back to work...he’s unretiring. Big surprise!

[SandRat]

All the DemoRat Pharisee's.

[Holly_P]

Well, you KNOW how much I like acapella sing. I will be enjoying this. :-)

I love to sing a Capella................................................................................................... as long as I have plenty of instruments accompanying me .

[Terry L Smith]

I can, and do, read things like this, and know that there are those that do ‘wear the masks’ oh so well.

I did, too.

In times past, I visited a church, for a few months, where my bed-partner was the church secretary. How hypocritical was it for them, to talk to HER about ‘the situation’, and say not one word about it, to ME, who was sitting in their midst?

One thing I can sit here and say .....

YOU GUYS, are supposed to be the examples, to make the world jealous and envious of ‘what you got’ ...

Me? Until I settle my personal and private beef, with ‘THE Boss’, I’ve resigned myself ‘to the sideline bench’.

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hee hee hee.

[PROCON]

Is it pink?

Pink is so yesteryear........it's purple!

Sis had a small to-do list, so it was easy.

Tiring out, see you soon!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Golden indeed...and you got to introduce your boys. Nice!

Hi to the Canteener.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you for the Brahms: Songs of Mary.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s true. We all need Christ to make us genuine again.

The question is not, who’s a hypocrite. It’s who’s wallowing in it, to the best we know not trying to get past it.