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A Lesson in Hypocrisy
By The Apostle | August 21, 2007
Discovered this through Stones Cry Out (complete with pictures!) and verified through TruthorFiction.com and Snopes.
LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.
This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the are! a blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville,Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
- from TruthorFiction.com
Now, I’m not looking to get into any kind of political quagmire here, but the lesson is simple: Walk the walk, if you want people to be listen when you talk the talk.
Back in 2005, the BBC commissioned a poll on what the new “cardinal sins,” aka “deadly” sins ought to be. Hypocrisy was one of them, with 6% of respondents choosing it as the one they would add.
I’m really not sure that Hypocrisyfits in as a “sin” in the Church of Man, though. Sure, it is discrediting, humiliating, and annoying – even infuriating. But I’m not sure its so serious an act as to cut oneself off from one’s fellow man. It can be unintentional, or an area in one’s personal life that, while inconsistent with your preaching, gets overlooked by yourself.
After all, not everyone’s hypocrisy is quite as big as Mr. Gore’s.
I believe hypocrisy ultimately falls better under the heading of “dishonesty” as a sin, which happened to have come in just above hypocrisy at 7%. This would include intentional (or intentionally ignored) aspects of one’s life that do not meet the standards that you set in judging others.
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