Hypocritical Cant

So, What's Wrong With . . . ?

We have all heard of "convenient Christians"--folk who seek to maintain a Christian façade when it is socially, politically, or personally convenient to do so.  But, it is all part of acting out a persona.  Such people are rightly called hypocrites, an epithet of disdain.

But far more common, yet equally despicable is the hypocrisy of Unbelievers.  It is impossible to describe adequately the tawdry hypocrisy of Unbelievers prattling on about this evil and that wrong whilst they know--and we all know--they don't believe a word of it.  Oh, maybe they tell themselves they are true born again believers, who detest whatever particular ignominy of the day.  But in truth they have no foundation, no principles, and no ethics upon which their high dudgeon can be sustained.  At best it manifests mere cant.

Since Unbelievers reject the Living God, anything is possible and acceptable in principle.  Anything which is allegedly not acceptable or wrong or immoral is not actually, for "wrong" and "immorality" have no ultimate or operational meaning.  What is "wrong" to one is "right" to another.  One man's treasure is another's rubbish.  Who knows?  Who cares? 

We suspect that more than the odd couple know this to be the case.  That is why Unbelievers are so shrill about their moralities and their principles and their ethics.
  Here is the nub of their hypocrisy.  On the one hand, they will sonorously inform us that there are no absolutes, no ultimate ethical standards--only what seems good for the moment.  On the other, they will rail and rant against this "wrong" and that "evil". 

Alison Mau is the go-to girl for enlightenment these days.  Alison is a crusading bi-sexual.  She was asked recently for her august assessment of the state of sexism in New Zealand these days.

Television presenter Ali Mau said she believed benevolent sexism (that is, holding doors open for women) was predominantly "an older generation thing" that would probably die out with her parents' generation, or perhaps with her own generation.  "These people who protest that it's chivalrous - I think there's some deep-seated sexism there."

Sexism?  And your issue is?  Sexism or non-sexism, Alison--it's all rubbish, nothingness, meaningless.  As you yourself have proclaimed publicly innumerable times--"If it feels right, do it".  There is nothing holy in any absolute sense whatever.  Only opinions, preferences, cant, and prejudice.  For you to speak or think or imply otherwise is rank hypocrisy.  Get a life and grow up.  Become a serious, truthful, non-hypocritical Unbeliever.  Spare us all this high moral dudgeon. 

Whilst we may laugh at Mau's foibles and fashionable "principles" the same reality holds true for much more serious stuff.  Take rape for example.  How can Unbelief be in any way consistent or truthful or believable in its condemnation of it.  Nature does not support such a condemnation.  Reason, unhinged from any absolute moral standards, is a wax nose to be twisted into any shape of convenience. It cannot condemn outright or in any absolute sense.  Reason depends upon premises, and the premises of Unbelief will admit no moral absolutes of any kind.  

The media and the Commentariat have been agog over some young barbarians getting girls drunk, then raping them whilst they are insensate.  At one very important level their moral outrage testifies to this truth: that they are made in God's image and are accountable to Him and His law.  Their outrage testifies to the Living God and His creation of all things and His absolute ethical demands of mankind.  They cannot help but speak out against such horrors (at least for the moment). 

But in their professed Unbelief they cannot ground their opprobrium and outrage in anything meaningful.  Unbelief is forced to acknowledge that it can rise no higher than what will be, will be.  There is no morality involved.  There is only might making right.  And in this case the barbarians had the might, so they had the right.  That's the best Unbelief can offer.

So, our call to all those who are morally outraged at date rape is simple.  Lay aside your hypocrisy.  Either bow in humility before your Creator and accept all of His law for your life or stop moralising about things which you have no foundation or basis to condemn. 

If Unbelief is right, stop hypocritically moralising and be consistent with your atheistic assumptions.  If it is not right, and your hypocrisy is disgusting to you, then repent and return to your Creator in the days that remain for you upon the earth.