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1. Rhymes With Right says:

   September 3, 2009 at 7:11 am

   On a percentage basis, I’d argue politics. On a strictly numerical basis, in church. But then again, there are so many more folks in church than in politics that the latter can be assumed.

   But remember — hypocrisy is not merely a failure to live up to standards. It is the espousing of standards for others that one neither believes in nor attempts to live up to. The failure to live up to standards one believe in is more properly defined as sin (from a religious point of view) or weakness (to avoid the religious terminology). Paul uses the Greek term “hamartia” in his epistles — it means “missing the mark that one has aimed for”.

2. Susan Regis Collins says:

   September 3, 2009 at 7:13 am

   Assuming that there are more people in ‘the’ church than are in politics…..ergo: by the numbers; the answer is ‘church’. 😉

   (Drat! I was editing while RWR was posting…making my answer redundant 🙁 )

3. Delaware Dem says:

   September 3, 2009 at 7:27 am

   Church. Just going by the 10 Commandments alone, people lie, lust, and steal all the time, in ways big and small.

4. anon says:

   September 3, 2009 at 7:39 am

   Well for Christians, the Ten Commandments isn’t supposed to be a club to beat people with. “Judge Not” – remember?

5. Mark H says:

   September 3, 2009 at 7:59 am

   I’d say politics, because if one takes the Christian faith on face value, human beings making mistakes is a given.

6. Unstable Isotope says:

   September 3, 2009 at 8:21 am

   Church. People in church don’t generally make the news like politicians do. Where the biggest percentage of hypocrites occur is at the intersection of church and politics – church leaders and bible-beating politicians.

7. anonone says:

   September 3, 2009 at 8:28 am

   I’d say dogmatic Churches since they have more rules. Besides, most people don’t give their slaves the day off on the Sabbath as God told ’em in the top 10 commandments.

8. anonii says:

   September 3, 2009 at 8:30 am

   Does a blog count as a church?

9. anonone says:

   September 3, 2009 at 8:40 am

   Only if you worship Donviti.

10. donviti says:

    September 3, 2009 at 8:54 am

    god damn right!

11. RSmitty Never Ceases To Shock says:

    September 3, 2009 at 9:41 am

    On a percentage basis, I’d guess it would be a tie!

12. anon says:

    September 3, 2009 at 9:43 am

    But remember — hypocrisy is not merely a failure to live up to standards. It is the espousing of standards for others that one neither believes in nor attempts to live up to.

    Hypocrisy also includes those who attempt to redefine hypocrisy.

13. chuck says:

    September 3, 2009 at 11:20 am

    Hmmm… we’d have to go per capita to figure this out.

14. Rhymes With Right says:

    September 3, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    Not redefining — defining accurately.

    I’ve got a dear friend who was raised Catholic but converted to Mormonism a few years ago. He is quite adamant that all swearing is wrong — but still has profanity slip into his conversation from time to time. By your lights, anon, he’s a hypocrite — by mine he is “merely” a sinner, because he struggles mightily to control his tongue and has, to be truthful, reduced his use of profanity a great deal as he has tried to walk in the path that he and other Mormons define as correct.

15. M.Opaliski says:

    September 3, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    Yes.

16. G Rex says:

    September 3, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    If Joe Biden, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy could claim to be be devout Catholics and still support abortion, then it’s politics that’s more hypocritical. But then again there are all those bishops who refused to excommunicate them. Glad I’m Episcopalian…most of the time.

17. xstryker says:

    September 4, 2009 at 12:23 am

    Opaliski for the win, proving brevity is the soul of wit. Well done!