Do you think that religious people often the most hypocritical? -

I know I already asked this question but I have not gotten a lot of feedback. --------------------------------------... I am from Mexico and most people here are Catholic. I have unintentionally gotten into several arguments because I have voiced my opinion over religion, particularly Catholicism. I don t appreciate the fact that people give their hard-earned money to an establishment who claims to give the money gathered in collection plates to the poor but really doesn t. Being that the majority of Mexicans are Catholic and contribute to the church, why is there still a lot of poverty in my country? The priest in my church, for example, has a luxurious car. Not very humble. Please excuse my English.|::::|Hola Laura--tienes algo de activista que no? You know how deep those traditions are ingrained in the culture so I need not tell you how difficult it will be for you to challenge them. I commend you nonetheless for your courage to speak out against such abuses. Maybe you should write editorials in the local press or school papers? Necesitamos mas gente como tu--D|::::|That is what I have been thinking. Our pastor, here in Wisconsin, has a very nice car, nice house, his son, who s my age, has nice clothes, etc. [But his wife and son also have health conditions, but that has nothing to do with your question..] Yes. Most are. Most seem to ignore the fact that God does not want to have other s thinking they are better because they teach and believe they know more than other s. God wants his children to be humble, and many priests, Christian Teachers, missionaries, etc. may think that way for being head of a head and thinking they are closer with God. But that doesn t condition to every Christain/Teacher of God. There is also something called personality wise.. I won t get into that, since I don t want to be.. quot;rudequot; O_O|::::|People are people the world over. We seek wealth, power, position Prestige, privilege and you name it. Over the centuries people have come up with many ingenious ways of accomplishing that goal. The Church s stay big by discouraging birth control and keeping big families in their control. That also adds to the world poverty. The very thing they keep begging for alms to control. If they taught birth control - no - DEMANDED birth control everywhere, things could improve. We already have a world population of about six and a half billion people. Only China is trying to control it.|::::|Yes, and the bible speaks more than people realize about this. 2 Peter 2 1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not 1 TITUS :15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16THEY CLAIM TO KNOW GOD BUT BY THEIR ACTIONS DENY HIM. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good|::::|Yes they are. BTW - your English is fine. If you want to know the TRUTH about such things, read The Anointed, The Elect, and The Damned! Make no mistake, it will answer all your questions very completely and thoroughly.|::::|Bless your heart. (For questions like that you are closer to The Kingdom of God than they are!) Continue to ask questions and you WILL get answers if you seek The Lord God, Jesus Christ and He will reveal it to you! Romans 10:9-13. (By the way, we are all hypocrites to some extent.) That is why we all fall short of His Glory in the first place! God Bless. lt; )))gt;lt;|::::|Instead of giving money in the collection plate, ask if there is somewhere you can volunteer instead. Then, watch all the dirty looks you get. It makes no sense.|::::|Well when i give my money I give it to the Lord Jesus. What the church or group does with it is between them and the Lord God. They will be held accountable for their actions.|::::|yes...we have a dogma by which we are judged by...we are humans who make mistakes....atheists and the like have no standards to be judged by so they can t be quot;hypocriticalquot; in the sense you are talking about...|::::|Maybe there would be fewer hungry people in the world if there were more atheist charities out there helping solve the crisis.|::::|People of all kinds can be hypocritical. You are forgetting the many Catholics who DO help the poor. They do exist whether you think so or not|::::|why is it, people who don t believe in religion can t get off the subject? please excuse my Mexican.|::::|Yes - you are correct|::::|You ask a difficult question is why you have not gotten a lot of feedback. In the broadest sense of the word quot;hypocritequot; almost everyone is one. Anyone that says one thing and does another is a hypocrite. The real problem is that Christians get the blame for it because they feel like it is a sin, and no one else does. As for your statement about giving and there are still a lot of poverty in the world, I could not agree more. I do not wish to speak badly about your Catholic faith, but as you have already noticed they are a very rich Church, yet their followers are often poor, just as it is in your country of Mexico. Some Religious groups are simply horrible about sharing the wealth with the impoverished. Some are much better than others. You have to take one at a time and investigate them. Any Christian group that truly uses their money wisely will be glad to send you information about how they spend it. As for your statement about so many religions in the world, and people give to them and there is still poverty, I would say this. Most religions do not spend the money on the underprivileged. It is only the Christ centered religions that believe in helping others out. Religious groups that are not Christ centered do not care for anyone but themselves. Yes, there are a lot of good Catholics in the world, and a lot of good Baptist, Methodists, Presbyterians, and a lot of others as well. The problem is there a lot of bad ones too, and they are the ones most of us see. We need to quit looking at people, and start looking at Jesus, he was not a hypocrite.