Are religious people more likely to be cheating hypocrites?

Question

According to this article, they do:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071115/sc_livescience/oddlyhypocrisyrootedinhighmorals

Answer 1

I would say no, but their hypocrisies will be more measurable to those around them.

If you make yourself a part of a group of people with publicly stated ideals, but don't live those precepts you will be perceived by others as a hypocrite.

You're still a hypocrite if you violate your own ideals, but others will be less able to measure your hypocritical behavior.

Answer 2

They are more likely be under the spotlight since they have chosen a lifestyle most people down because they feel these people are trying to be better than them. When in all actuality they just want to improve there current lifestyle. So yeah when they do something wrong and get caught everyone makes it out be a bigger deal than it really is. Not saying that is the case every time but we've all witnessed it on TV before. Hell people get payed big bucks to just to take pictures or videotape these people screwing up. So who are the real hypocrites? The people just sitting around waiting to bring their fellow man/woman down. Pretty pathetic isn't it?

Answer 3

Not that the article was slanted or anything, but there are cheaters and hypocrites in all walks of life. As far as CHRISTianity is concerned, Christ is the example we are to follow, not Ted Haggard.

Answer 4

I read the article, and it basically said that moral people who don't believe cheating is wrong will cheat like crazy, (end justifies means) whereas moral people who believe cheating is wrong will refuse to cheat.

"Students who scored high on moral identity and also considered cheating to be morally wrong were the least likely to cheat. In contrast, the worst cheaters were the "moral" students who considered cheating to be an ethically justifiable behavior in certain situations."

So it depends on what exactly you believe...

Answer 5

It makes sense though, doesn't it? I mean "religious people" have more to live up to, and yet they live in the same environment as everyone else. So when they fail, which is the same thing everyone does, they are hypocrites. they only difference between christians and everyone else is Christ.

Answer 6

It's hard to be hypocritical if you're not espousing a particular philosophy in the first place.

Now if, say, Hefner were privately urging all women to remain clothed and virginal until they're married, that would be hypocritical -- but how likely is that to happen?

Answer 7

From the news, it seems that TV evangelists are the prime candidates.
Never play cards for money with anyone who believes that a god is on his side! Cheating becomes justifiable when a god told him to do it.

Answer 8

maximum religious all of us is hypocrites. in case you think of roughly it they say they're saved, or religious or walking interior the gentle or the rest they say yet whilst it comes right down to it no one is with out sin. no one is ideal. One faith criticizes yet another faith and says that they are damned to hell because of the fact they do no longer worship the comparable way. Do they actually think of it is being God like or Christian like. yet another faith says premartial intercourse, intercourse with minors and comparable intercourse intercourse is faulty yet leaders of their own faith are sexual abusing minors that are the comparable intercourse as them. nonetheless others have self assurance that in case you repent your sin and show regret God will then provide it to you and you're saved, Does this provide them the perfect to proceed to sin and then only say oops enable me repent or confess and show regret every time. so as I reported in the previous all religions and non secular all of us is hypocrites,

Answer 9

As a religious hypocrite I would say that we all are. How does a sinful preacher preach not to sin?

Answer 10

Of course many of them do. I'm not going to sit here and accuse all of them because that wouldn't be fair but I'm sure some do or thay wouldn't be human.