{"id":117,"date":"2005-01-17T07:18:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/in-defense-of-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2005-01-17T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T12:18:53","slug":"in-defense-of-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/in-defense-of-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, hypocrisy is indefensible. Jesus criticized hypocrites, he didn&#8217;t criticize sinners. But we&#8217;re all hypocrites in one sense. We don&#8217;t live up to our ideals. <\/p>\n<p>However, some ways of dealing with our hypocrisy are better than others. One way is to stop claiming to believe what we don&#8217;t practice. As in, I ain&#8217;t no hypocrite, I know I&#8217;m a sinner. <\/p>\n<p>But something&#8217;s lacking there. The other way of dealing with our hypocrisy, much harder, is to stop practicing what we claim we don&#8217;t believe. Until I can do that, I&#8217;d rather be a hypocrite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, hypocrisy is indefensible. Jesus criticized hypocrites, he didn&#8217;t criticize sinners. But we&#8217;re all hypocrites in one sense. We don&#8217;t live up to our ideals. However, some ways of dealing with our hypocrisy are better than others. One way is to stop claiming to believe what we don&#8217;t practice. As in, I ain&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}