Christian Hypocrisy

Tonight, as I was going through my newsfeed on Facebook, I came across this post: 

Hi Lord, its me, things are getting bad here, gas prices are too high, no jobs, food and heating cost too high. I know some have taken you out of our schools, government & even Christmas but Lord I'm asking you to come back and re-bless America, we really need you. Thanks Lord, I love you!

I don't really have anything against the post itself.  I don't agree with it, but at least it's positive.  I have a problem with some of the comments that followed.  I'm not going to copy and paste them here because most of them are just rambling, but I will paraphrase.  

There were rants about how America does not deserve God's blessings because of the rampant homosexuality and abortions.  They went on to discuss how preachers are not talking enough about sin and how we are a heathen nation (as you can probably tell, some of my family members are super conservative!).  

I have a few problems with these rants.  First of all, the people who are ranting about sin are sinners themselves.  It seems that their premarital sex and getting pregnant out of wedlock are lesser sins than homosexuality.  Who are they to decide that their sins are forgiven but that God would definitely not be able to forgive the homosexuals or the abortion providers/receivers?  

Secondly, who are they to judge the sinners of America?  What happened to judge not lest ye be judged and let he who is without sin cast the first stone?  Most importantly, where is the love thy neighbor as thyself?   

People like this drive me bonkers.  I despise Christian hypocrisy.  If you want the world to be good, how about turning that inward before judging the rest of the world.  After all, those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.   

Okay... So, maybe I am a bad person.

Someone I knew throughout Elementary, Middle, and high school asked to be my friend on Facebook a few days ago (I actually had a crush on him in the 3rd grade). I confirmed, but I didn't look at his profile. So, today he showed up on my newsfeed. I clicked on him to see what's been going on in his life. It wasn't all that interesting. He's younger than me but he's been married for 3 years (yikes). He works as a cop in a podunk town next to the one we grew up in. He seems to be happy. He looks the same as I remember. He was a good enough guy and I hope that the happiness that he's showing is legitimate.

As I was looking at his profile, I noticed that he had recently become friends with a few of our other classmates. I was never friends with those people. They were always snooty and worthless people. The thought they were better than everyone and were mean. Well, I couldn't help myself. I had to look at their profiles.

Here comes the part where I'm a bad person. Each of them wasn't as sucessful as I have been. And it made me a little happy inside. None of them had graduated from college. A few had gained a bunch of weight and were not nearly as attractive as they once were. Some had already had a child or children. I know I'm awful. I just like that I've been able to make it this far without screwing up and they hadn't. It's just nice that there was actually some karma for what horrible people they were as I was growing up.

Now I have to make up for being a horrible person so that karma won't catch up with me! :)