@secondson saidWhose is the hypocrisy? Pence's [or some similar postponed-repentance politician's]?
You're clueless. It doesn't work that way. That's wholesale hypocrisy.
@secondson saidYou don't think there are Christians who knowingly "sin" [according to their own terms of reference] while telling themselves they will repent, they will repent, they will repent etc.?
Just the sort of thing an atheist like you might think of.
@secondson saidIf a Christian like Mike Pence knowingly "bears false witness" for years and years because he sees it as a necessary/unavoidable part of his political activity, all along telling himself his "sin" will be absolved if he sincerely repents at a later stage in life, would that make him a "clueless" Christian, to your way of thinking?
You're clueless. It doesn't work that way.
@suzianne saidWell, I for one know that if I were convinced there is no God I wouldn't live my life as though the possibility existed I could be wrong, even though, deep inside, I couldn't know absolutely that God didn't exist.
And it's exactly why Pascal's Wager does not work.
@fmf saidAgain, how many decades did you live like a clueless Christian?
If a Christian like Mike Pence knowingly "bears false witness" for years and years because he sees it as a necessary/unavoidable part of his political activity, all along telling himself his "sin" will be absolved if he sincerely repents at a later stage in life, would that make him a "clueless" Christian, to your way of thinking?
@fmf saidDo you think it's a sin to deceive a deceiver?
If a Christian like Mike Pence knowingly "bears false witness" for years and years because he sees it as a necessary/unavoidable part of his political activity, all along telling himself his "sin" will be absolved if he sincerely repents at a later stage in life, would that make him a "clueless" Christian, to your way of thinking?