Where is there more deceit and hypocrisy: within a random group of 100 atheists or in a 100 member church?

Question

Speculate please.

Answer 1

To answer Suzy Q, and you:

In any church.

Answer 2

Good question! The obvious answer would be church goers but, as a church lady myself I know that there is redemption to be found there. If one confesses before one's church family, even after a history of reluctance to do so, is it still hypocrisy? What if one privately tells God and no one else is the wiser?

However, in the athiest gathering (let's say....the 2004 DNC, for example), where is the forgiveness? Where is the redemptiion? The lack of a godhead, the utter absence of divine intervention, promises no reason to change or regret one's own will. What hope is there in that?

Answer 3

First, I bet the prevalence is similar. Though, it would depend strongly on the church. Most professed atheists are certain that their unprovable standpoint is valid. It makes them very similar. If you take straight Catholic doctrine and ensure the church members understand it, there will be none in the 100 member church.

Answer 4

I think human behavior can be applied to both sides of that coin. Church is not a place you should expect no sin. It is the spiritual hospital where people come to get will from sin. Everyone is at different levels of wellness. It would be unfair to expect perfection and put that type of demand on people under one roof.

Answer 5

Deceit - about equal except for the hypocrites who will have more trying to hide the fact that they are hypocrites.
Hypocrisy - the church will take it by a mile.

Answer 6

I can't believe that you think atheists commit deceit and hypocrisy. Atheists will consider ideas other than their own. Christians may do it, too, but not to the degree that atheists do.

Answer 7

I will say, being a christian, in a church.
People in churches today (a large percentage of them), are only there to say to the world that I am good, while they live a totally different story.

There is more hypocrisy in a church than anywhere else.

it shames us true believers to even recognize this....but if God worked like he did in the olden days...things would not be soo.....to me God's mercy is tooo great sometimes.......but I still thank him for that overly abundant mercy......because it saved me!

Answer 8

With all the 200!

Answer 9

I would think that it would be equal, or at least very close. As I think it would be with any random group of 100 people.

Answer 10

First of all - please one liners who answer nothing - refrain from
getting points falsely. Stop usurping the goodwill of yahoo.

If one person in a 100 member church turn out to be a born again Christian - it is still worth more than a million atheist who wish just to be fertilizer when they die.

Answer 11

Deceit and hypocrisy can only be found in churchists. Atheists have no such morality , in fact they have no morality at all.