An American Hypocrite
Christ of the Ozarks AN AMERICAN HYPOCRITE BY DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS In the American colonies, the Anglo-American pioneers armed themselves with the Ten Commandments and fancied themselves as Hebrews founding the New Jerusalem. 'Tis grave philosophy's absurdest dream, That Heavn's intentions are not what they seem, That only shadows are dispens'd below, And earth has no reality but woe." -William Cowper, 'Hope' (1781)- Hypocrites are a dime a dozen, but some hypocrites are much bigger than others. In fact, Reverend Jonathan Ellsworth Perkins wrote a book about the biggest hypocrite in America. Reverend Perkins was an aide to the radical minister of the Disciples of Christ Church, Reverend Gerald L.K. Smith. The mere title of the book - The Biggest Hypocrite in America, Gerald K. Smith Unmasked - gives those of us who are hypocrisy connoisseurs sufficient cause to suspect that its author was a hypocrite too. After all, we know a lot about hypocrisy, and ...