Worst Kind of Hypocrite Is

¶ … Worst Kind of Hypocrite is a Religious Hypocrite Nobody loves the hypocrites for being hypocrites. Even the hypocrites express their hate for their fellow hypocrites because by doing this they are masking themselves as anti-hypocrites, which then will make them appear to be not hypocrites. This makes them extremely clever spies -- able to mask themselves and infiltrate any organization or profession they want. No wonder these hypocrites are all around and among us.

These are the parents who tell their children not to say curses fully knowing that they curse all the time, the doctor who tells people that smoking is bad to their health when all the while he can't quit smoking cigarettes himself, the teacher who punishes any cheater she catches in an exam but then at the end of the day cheats on her husband, and a lot of other people who plays a role of a completely different person from who they really are.

Yes, all these hypocrites are bad but among these people, there is not anyone who is worse than the religious hypocrites. The following are three examples of the plainly hypocritical things they do: they come to church regularly not really aiming to worship God, they point their fingers at "sinners" saying they want to help them, when clearly they are not helping, and the last and worst of all, they say they believe in and worship God yet they don't live their lives like so.

If we look "hypocrisy" up in the dictionary, we will see that the word originated from a Greek word "hypokrisis" which refers to the act of "playing a part on the stage" ("hypocrisy." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 2009). The religious hypocrites, then, are hypocrites who have a religious church as a stage for their performance. They come to this church without really aiming to worship their God but just to meet and mingle with their friends, hoping to gain their approval.

They are in their religion because it is the "in" thing for the people around them; and they would serve in certain ministries of the church just to lift their own names up, not God's. It even comes to a point where these people become important to their church meetings that they are expected to come to every meeting. Up to this point, the religious hypocrites may still not get the whole point of having a religion, which is the glorification of God.

No, the religious hypocrites come to church to glorify themselves, not God. There are also religious hypocrites who get a feeling of security from knowing that they are doing better in their religion than other people in their church. They give their best, trying not to do anything wrong in the eyes of the people of the church, not God, so that they may say to themselves that they are living their lives well.

And in the case that they fail, meaning that they "sinned," they take comfort from the thought of having other people from the church who they know also sinned. They totally missed the point of doing the things they do… which is to live their lives as worship to God. They easily see other people's fault, but never theirs. It is not wrong to correct other people in the church as long as you also "do what you preach" (Fredrick Crawford, 2004: 1).

But these people advise other people what must be done, appearing to be concerned for the other's welfare but deep inside their minds, they are only concerned for their own glory. The last example of things the religious hypocrites do is that they do not live their lives whole-heartedly the way their religion is teaching them to. The church teaches people to live lives worthy of being called the lives of God's people. It tells them to help, encourage, and love one another.

The hypocrites may also be found doing these, but the question is whether they are doing them whole-heartedly. The religious hypocrites do everything that a real member of their religion does, except that they are doing them with the wrong mindsets -- they do it for themselves. The classic example of a hypocrite is one who does everything only for.