Nobody's Perfect?

[palebluedot]

Over the years I have come to the conclusion that most people are an odd collage of morality, motivations and impulses. Add a layer of theistic beliefs and it simply gets more complicated. I'd just let him rattle on because as you say "Nobody's Perfect".

I agree with Tank.  It's hard to find anyone who's moral landscape is without some form of contradiction.  If we are honest, we are all guilty of this. 

I think your point is that it's strange how your colleague's professed morals can, at times, be so at odds with the statements he made in the previous breath, especially when he regularly reminds you that they come from the instructed morality of his Bible.  It must seem that he really can't be sincere about his beliefs or else is ignorant of the true message of his faith.

I'd say that some religionists really are ignorant - they often think that the central message is to love everyone.  They have never heard that the Bible's message really is one of vicarious redemption (i.e. scapegoating) with the sole purpose of cheating death.

For the others that are aware of all the doctrines, and are happy to pick and choose only the ones they approve of, you could say they are insincere because they impose their own moral judgement over that of the scripture.  You might question why they make the objective judgement of which elements are really moral and then give credit to God rather than themselves.

I guess you should be thankful that he is one or the other.  If he abandoned the calming effect of his faith, he sounds like he would be an animal.  If he paid a bit more attention to his scripture, he sounds like he would be a mysogenystic sadist.