Hypocrisy on Full Display

President Trump ushered in a new era of almost unprecedented hypocrisy. And his supporters in the political and religious establishments of these United States are champions of hypocrisy.

The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines “hypocrisy” as “the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform.” Webster says hypocrisy is “behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel.”

The seven children of Judge Amy Coney Barrett are in a unique school this morning, where they can see and hear some of the greatest hypocrites our nation has ever known, starting with Lindsay Graham and going on and on down the ranks of the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The tragedy of this entire exercise is that hypocrisy has become normative in our political culture, just as truth has become a scarce commodity. And to make matters worse, millions of our citizens who claim to be Christians are leading the parade. It makes me so angry that I can’t really imagine how angry it must make God.

I’ve been reading a powerful book that everyone of all religious and political persuasions should read. The title is “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.” It’s author is Kristin Kobe’s Du Mez. Believe me, it honestly displays what has happened in our great country over my own lifetime and even a bit before I was born. I commend it to all who honestly seek, and do not fear, truth.