Whitewashed Tombs

I’m at my weekend guest retreat here in Toronto visiting my friends and decided to bring some raw brown rice to contribute to a meal. They ended up having other plans, so I asked if I could have the rice back and remembered that old, offensive term “Indian giver.” One who gives a gift and then takes it back. 

 

Given the history of white people’s relationship with Native Americans, first stealing their land, then giving them a patch of unwanted land, then later taking that back, one just has to wonder at the audacity of coming up with that term. Just another chapter in the Book of Hypocrisy that seems to be the playbook of so much of our history. And daily news.  

 

The word hypocrisy comes from the ancient Greek word for actor, someone playing a part, and came to mean pretending to virtue or goodness, “the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not not conform.” Like all the "pro-lifers" desperately clinging to a thin rope of moral outrage knowing that the abyss of their pitiful pretense is waiting to swallow them. As this cartoon so clearly exposes:

These self-proclaimed Christians would do well to see what their Lord Jesus had to say on the matter:

 

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.”     Matthew 23: King James Bible

 

Substitute “preachers of the abortion laws” above and there you have it. Oh ye self-righteous whitewashed tombs, repent!