Hypocrisy at funerals

A funeral is a cultural tradition and ritual.One should think of a funeral speech as a ritual performance, rather than as a statement of belief. It is more important that it conform to the traditions, than that it express truth.Personally, I hate rituals. But sometimes one is obliged to participate in them. This sort of looking on the positive side is part of the tradition. When you think about it, there isn't much point in continuing to bear a grudge against somebody who has died.

That's what pastors do. If a pastor is invited to speak at a funeral, that's what you have to expect.Yes, I'll grant that there is hypocrisy in religion. I don't think it is worse at funerals than at other times. There's probably hypocrisy is all religion, but fundamentalist Christianity seems worse than other varieties of Christianity.

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Jesus was a liberal hippie