Hypocrisy Projection -

Pastor Matthew Best
4 min readOct 13, 2021

Hypocrisy and Projection are related to each other:

“Hypocrisy is a failure to act in accordance with the standards you claim to hold.

Projection is instead attributing/accusing others of that which you yourself feel or do, usually falsely.

“They are tangentially related, but hypocrisy is contained to your own behavior, while Projection is about you and your behavior towards others.”

What I have observed lately in politics is something that goes beyond hypocrisy and projection — the combination of the two. It’s…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.