in recent weeks ive found upworthy videos showing up in my news feed all the time as i procrastinate on facebook. (thankfully i can now "waste away" online without actually pushing off any homework haha). this one was particularly striking and serves as a good reminder of whats wrong with christianity--or, rather why people _think_ theres something wrong with christianity.
its called "im sorry im a christian" and its only 3ish minutes: http://youtu.be/EieFdXy_HwM
when i saw it, i thought it was worth sharing and i wanted to look at what the bible has said about hypocrisy of that sort. peter hypocritically sat with gentiles when no one else was there who would judge him, but as soon as his jewish peers came, he would not sit with the gentiles anymore and instead sat with his old "high and mighty and better than everyone else" "friends." the cool kids over the nerds. something like that.
at school, i cringe when i hear people claiming to be christians and then telling people God hates them for xyz reasons/cussing them out without blinking an eye. in those cases its obvious that God is being poorly represented by those "christians," that theyre being incredibly two faced.
for me, its been a bit different. and today, i want to straight up apologize for my own hypocrisy. its painful to admit, and honestly it makes me cringe to think about how this happened, but i know that people perceive me as arrogant, pretentious, overbearing, a show off--you get the point. im not really sure when it started and i...i didnt mean to do any of the things which may have contributed to that image. to anyone who i might have offended in this way, im so so sorry; i apologize and i genuinely want to make up for it. in day to day activities, i need to just keep my thoughts to myself, it seems. one of my teachers always reminds us to celebrate or suffer in silence when we're taking quizzes (where the questions are read aloud and then we write the answers): the same idea seems to apply here to life.
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