Reply #47: Condescending? No! Officious? Yes.

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As much as I enjoy a person telling me how to make myself better, there's a hypocrisy in that same person opting out of the same exercise.

The bottom line is that YOU don't accept the same standards that you encourage in OTHERS. YOU don't set yourself up for the same public failure that YOU encourage in OTHERS.

And when expressing disappointment that so few christians are adhering to a standard you don't care to attempt yourself......well, it's hypocritical. You can't cheer or boo attempts at standards that you don't apply to yourself without being a hypocrite. If it's not for you, then, it's not for you in every sense. If you can't see how that would leave someone cold, one can only point out your angry and defensive reaction to my challenging you the same way. Your first reaction was to ask ME if I was going to rise to the challenge. See? There's a real, shoe on the other foot problem with perception in the religion forum.