Welcome back to Chimis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I want to talk about hypocrisy,

particularly sexual hypocrisy. As you might have already heard, there's a scandal that Milo

Unopolis broke this week involving the right-wing podcaster, Eliza Schaefer, who it turns out

has been seemingly a serial adulterer. And one of the women that he cheated on his wife with

is Sarah Stock, who is a Catholic convert

and an online influencer who presented a sort of image of sexual purity online.

And not unreasonably, this has led to charges of hypocrisy.

And I think that's something we as Christian should take very seriously, because after all,

the issue with hypocrisy isn't just that we solely our own name

or that we humiliate our spouses and our children. It's also that we can do a real disservice to God.

St. Paul warns in Romans chapter 2, you who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

For as it is written, the name of God is blasphemed among the

Gentiles because of you. And I want you to notice that Paul calls out hypocrisy. Because I know

one of the reactions we can have when we see people who we view on our side of things being hypocritical

is to just try to ignore it because they're saying the right things,

even if they're not living according to them. But Paul's point is, no, you actually are not doing

God as service when you try to impose a high standard on everyone else while living with a very

different standard yourself. So how do we avoid doing that? Because let's be

very clear, Christian sexual morality is a high bar, and also, the higher the bar is on anything,

the easier it is to be a hypocrite. Like if you're a health nut and somebody finds out that you

regularly smoke, that's hypocritical

in a way that somebody who doesn't care about health, smoking isn't. Or if you're an environmentalist

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