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Hypocrisy: I'm pretty patient and laid back when it comes to a lot of things, but I have a very low tolerance for hypocrisy. I'd rather a person be real and consistent - even if I don't agree with them - than wishy washy and undecided. I guess it comes quite a bit from a lot of stuff I saw when I was an active member in my church. I saw a LOT of hypocrisy - a lot of which occurred in those who were entrusted to be leaders. I saw them look down their noses at others who were probably living better lives than they were. I saw ministers and leaders put burdens on people that were impossible for them to bear, yet would not lift a finger to bear any burdens themselves. I saw a lot of good people downtrodden, and a few of them just gave up altogether. I didn't "quit church" because I wanted to "leave God". I quit because I went home feeling worse than when I left. After all, church is supposed to be a place you go to be uplifted. People deal with crap on their job, in their families, in their everyday lives, etc. and the last place they need to be browbeaten is in the house of God.

I guess you can say that those memories I have carried with me into my daily secular life. So when I see it, it hits that part of my core and causes me to become short fused.

None of us are perfect, but at least be consistent and humble enough to admit that you ain't all that ALL the time!

I can't stand hypocrisy, either.

Don't point fingers and judge when you're doing the same thing! You have a lot more class than I, DK, as to not go into specifics...however....I'm livid.

I can't stand it when people do mean things to animals in order to get a laugh. I just commented on a YouTube video in which they were putting tape on a cat in order to watch it walk funny. My comment was "someone should put duct tape on these people's genitals and then rip it off...just for a good laugh, you know".

You know that has to hurt the cat when they remove the tape.

Idiots.