hypocrisy

I saw that a friend of mine has been getting a bunch of nasty questions/accusations on her formspring account, and it made me mad. This unknown person hid behind the walls of anonymity to shoot mean comments at a girl he or she didn't even know. From the way they wrote, they sounded like a girl about early highschool age, probably from our church. I really want to know why this person thought they could judge someone so harshly when I can guarantee you that they're nowhere near perfect. True, God wants us to be pure and holy. However, this does not justify the kind of caustic, biting remarks this person made about my friend, even if she had been messing up. For the record, I really respect my friend because she is more of a light for Jesus than a lot of people I know who follow a long list of rules under the impression that it makes other people able to see Christ in them. In fact, if this person really knew her at all, they would not be asking such questions because they would know that she loves Jesus more than anything else.

As a disclaimer for what I'm about to say, yes, I love the family of God and I'm very inspired and humbled by a lot of my fellow Christians. But...I hate the hypocrisy in the church. Not just RCCC, but the body of Christ as a whole. In America, that's what Christians are known for. And I hate it. The lies, the masks, the hidden deeds, the backstabbing, the total fakeness of some people. And they do it in the name of Christ. How can they? How can this person judge my friend when they are most likely less honoring to God with their life than my friend is? How can we allow Christ's name to be so dirtied in the minds of Americans? I think hypocrisy is the worst problem Christians deal with. And most don't even care.