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Originally Posted by scaeagles
However, again taking the example of Jimmy Swaggart, I don't believe he had ever said he was a perfect individual prior to his "fall". (As an aside, I am no Swaggart fan, it's just a good example.) However, didn't he lose his most of, if not all of, his credibility in speaking in terms of what is moral?
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Again, this comparison makes no sense. It only makes sense if Al Gore is willfully failing to live up to a standard he claims to live to. So far, there is no evidence offered that this is the case.
Just evidence that he isn't living up to the standards that others have decided he claims to live up to but he has not.
You find this "humorous." Similarly I could find it humorous that you don't live up to Levitical law since you claim the Bible as the source of your morality. It doesn't matter that you make no claim that Levitical law is the ruling law of the modern Christian since Mosaic law was overturned by Jesus and the New Testament. All that matters is what I claim you should believe and act on based on my interpreation of what you actually believe.
Does me calling you a hypocrite because of this actually make you a hypocrite and therefore your hypocrisy is humorous?
You say you aren't judging him based on your terms but you are. Or else there would be nothing to find humorous here.