Hypocrisy does not entail a simple failure to act in accordance with the principles that one believes in; hypocrisy is a willful discarding of principle despite lip-service to the contrary. Many religious people fit this description, but it's far from universal. If a religion, and its corresponding theology, allow for…

This is the first time you've used an actual example, rather than a cartoonish caricature. And, when you retreat to actualities, your argument inevitably changes from "all religious people are hypocrites" to "some religious people are hypocrites," which was never in dispute in the fist place.

Religion is the practical application of theology, not that it matters much.

Again, your characterization of theology is akin to an attempt to condense, say, Dostoevsky into a few Dr. Seuss-style stanzas. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

If a particular theology allows for repentance, then those adherents who make mistakes but repent and keep trying are, again, not hypocritical.

It might be argued that theology itself is a long string of rationalizations, but that's beside the point. If someone believes in a particular theology, then actually lives accordiong to its strictures, they are ipso facto NOT hypocritical.

"What's the deal with the underpants?"

"Do you believe in the Judeo-Christian God? That is, an omnipotent, omniscient, creative force of good? Yes? Do you spend all your waking hours in prayer and humble service to God? No? Then you are indeed practicing cognitive dissonance."

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"I wanna meet Scrubs! Oh, and I wanna meet black Scrubs, too!"

It seems wildly unlikely to me that she'd even consider abortion. Sure, she's in the process of rejecting significant aspects of her background, like coming to terms with her family's dysfunction and deciding to have premarital sex (remember how shocked she was that her brother was getting it on?).

Frankly,
this decision is emblematic of the sort of tight control that will one day lead to open-platform phones (like Android models) completely trumping Apple in the handset market.

King Crimson, anyone? The big question is, which lineup(s) to induct? I think everybody who's ever been in the band is now eligible, other than their newest drummer…

Tuck & Patti
Wow… ditched? Rejected entirely? Not interesting enough to keep around for a potential future spin, on a lark, once in a great, great while?

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