The last paragraph from Unjust Disource pretty much sums up a lot of the hipster Gawker reading 20 somethings of today. The worst sin of all is hypocrisy so to avoid ever being seen as a hypocrite let us jettison all sorts of standards of behavior since they are hard to live up to and to fail to measure up to one of them is to be a hypocrite and we can't have that. Instead set the standards of your behavior low so you will never ever have to worry about not being able to meet them.
Look at all the cynicism these days about great men of accomplishments. People delight in pointing out how such men, like all men once or several times failed to live up to the ideals he has been praised for embodying. "This guy was a slave owner" etc. The critics self-congratulate themselves internally if not out loud about how they didn't commit the same sins as these men but seem oblivious to the fact that they also did not do the great deeds they did.
The greatest saints were also many times the greatest sinners. I respect men who set out to achieve great things whether it be in worldly things or moral and spiritual things even if it meant failing many times to live up to their ideals a lot more then those who stay in their comfortable shelters, never exposing their virtues and vices to anyone but are always at ready to chronicle and point to the failings of others. “At least I never did that!”
Look at all the cynicism these days about great men of accomplishments. People delight in pointing out how such men, like all men once or several times failed to live up to the ideals he has been praised for embodying. "This guy was a slave owner" etc. The critics self-congratulate themselves internally if not out loud about how they didn't commit the same sins as these men but seem oblivious to the fact that they also did not do the great deeds they did.
The greatest saints were also many times the greatest sinners. I respect men who set out to achieve great things whether it be in worldly things or moral and spiritual things even if it meant failing many times to live up to their ideals a lot more then those who stay in their comfortable shelters, never exposing their virtues and vices to anyone but are always at ready to chronicle and point to the failings of others. “At least I never did that!”