Religious hypocrisy refers to people who claim to follow and believe in a particular religion, but their actions contradict the principles and values of that religion. It means pretending to be devout or righteous while behaving in a dishonest or immoral way.
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Some are (or were) atheists because
of religious hypocrisy, who attended church only to find out that the religious instructors were immoral as well as because they were taught this in school (especially in a university), such as Dr. Irene Hof Laurenceau who practices orthopedic surgery in Switzerland.
But what it seems like to me is that we equate «Religion» with what I call «Religiosity» or «
Religious Hypocrisy».
Keep your politics,
religious hypocrisy, and bigotry bottled up within Perry's a $ $ where it belongs.
The religious hypocrisy agenda.
Some statistics have rubbished our leadership incompetence and
religious hypocrisy.
It is in fact neither — although its championing of tolerance and humanism will be anathema to fundamentalists of any faith, while its open condemnation of
religious hypocrisy ought to shame those who use the name of God to justify greedy campaigns for land, resources and power.