This post is about people saying something and doing exactly the opposite...
For instance the recent controversy in the US is the pastor from Atlanta who has been accused of sexually assaulting boys from his church.... now this pastor was one of those people who preached that homosexuality is a sin and he was on earth to eradicate it..... and just as he preached, he went and did the exact opposite of that.... and then there is the case of the US senator who again used public forum to denounced homosexuality and then was caught soliciting a male prostitute!
All of this makes me wonder.... why preach something you cannot follow... rather why preach about that specific topic? I mean there are so many issues in the world you can raise your voice against - why raise an issue where you know you are not being honest?
This reminds of two scenes from two movies made by two different directors in two different continents... the first was the movie Mr and Mrs. Iyer.... which is a movie about a muslim man who gets caught in the riots and is saved by a hindu woman.... so there is the scene in the beginning Konkana Sen recoils from Rahul Bose on hearing that he is a muslim.... and then there is a scene where a man and his friend have a discussion about muslims saying their prayers in public and how it is such a nuisance... and one man tells the other man that muslims should be left alone and they should not be persecuted cos of their religion.... and later on in the movie when the hindu religious fundamentalists come onto the bus, and start searching for the muslims, konkana sen immediately tells them that the muslim is her husband and they are mr. and mrs. iyer... and when the fundamentalists continue to search for muslims, the man who previously advocated to his friend that muslims should be left alone get up and point out to the muslim couple in front of the bus.... which couple eventually get killed...
The next movie is Crash which was a brilliantly made movie about LA and the underlying racism.... so there is the case of Ryan Phillipe who is an upright cop who advocates equality and believes in giving Blacks a fair chance..and then there is another cop (Matt Dhillon I think) who is openly vitriolic... and denounces any form of equality between blacks and whites... there is a scene where he even insults a black couple .... and finally Ryan Phillippe in an attempt to protect a black boy takes him into the car... and then gets so scared by the boy that he shoots him dead .... and Matt Dhillon is called to rescue people from an accident... and one of the people stuck is the same black woman whom he had insulted... and they show how he risks his life to save her....
In both cases, all of them did exactly opposite of what they preached... so what does this mean??? is it that people who pretend to be good are not always that good... or that people who pretend to be bad are not always that bad....
Personally I have seen some sort of hypocrisy in my life... for instance i have seen many ultra religious people who proclaim that they are following the word of God and that they live the Christian life... but they are the first ones to shut the doors on the needy, the first ones to stack up their money and the first ones to be cunning.... and I also have a lot of people who are human rights advocates who claim to be embracing differences... yet they are the first ones to denounce people and their lifestyles... they denounce or judge the choices people make and claim that their choices and lifestyles are not pure enough since they are not doing good for other human beings.... what happened to the basic human right of choice??? Apparently there is only one choice in their books....
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