It is an unfortunate fact that although Christians are called to holiness, we all have our failures. No matter how genuine your faith, you simply do not convert and immediately become Jesus. Every Christian sins. No Christian is perfect, and every Christian ought to remember that. It is a fact that should humble us, and cause us not to look down upon other sinners.
Unfortunately, this is not always how Christians think. In fact, some Christians can be so judgemental that they will ostracise even other Christians for not thinking their way. This is repugnant to the Gospel, which states that when it comes to sin, we're all in the same boat. We can boast of nothing, for we are all under the sentence of death, having rebelled against the Author of Life. Yet, He sent His Son, the only perfect man to ever walk the earth, to suffer the penalty for our sin, so that all who believe in Him will have eternal life.
Hypocrisy is a very much human trait, as are hatred and bigotry. You will find these three ugly traits in Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, atheists, Catholics, agnostics, and any other religious group you can think of. But I'm going to make a statement that should not be controversial: You cannot paint any people group with the same brush. If you know a person, you know one person. That says nothing about other people who share his or her unrelated traits.
For the most part, people know this, as is shown by the fact we also hate to be tarred with the same brush as members of our own groups. I've met many atheists, for example, who outright denounce the rampant trolling on Christian ministries. My simple question, therefore, is why do so many people act as if Christianity is the only religion in which hypocrisy runs rampant?
There are some horrible people out there claiming to be Christians. I denounce their behaviour. If they are truly saved, I call upon them to put their money where their mouths are: Repent. The Lord Himself says that the measure with which you judge shall be used to judge you (Matthew 7:2). Read the parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee, and see with which worshipper you most resonate. With the Pharisee, who was proud and condemned, or the tax collector, who was humble and forgiven? Hypocrisy, bigotry, hatred, these have no place in Christianity.
But again, these are human problems, and what are Christians? Humans. Only one man was ever perfect, and it is to Him we should look, but it is also on Him our faith should be judged. If you judge Christianity based on the fact its followers are human, you are the hypocrite, because you preach two different standards for two or more different groups. If you judge all Christians as bigots, you are the bigot, because you are intolerant of a specific people group based on a few "bad eggs". If you will take such a flimsy excuse to bash Christians, you are full of hate.
But not just for Christians.
All religions are intolerant. Some religions, without mentioning names, even have intolerance written into them. Yet, Christianity, closely followed by Judaism, seems to be uniquely hated in the world. Why? "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." (John 15:18).
God's Holiness is in permanent conflict with man's sin. As sinners, we do not love God, and God's eyes are too pure to look upon our wickedness. We hate God so much that when He walked among us, we nailed Him to the cross. Christianity is so uniquely hated because God is so uniquely hated. Yet, He is also unique among all that is called divine. No false god offers genuine grace. God looks upon those who are indebted to Him and pays the debt Himself. He looks upon those who are separated from Him and says "come, let us become one". He looks to His enemies and calls them to be His sons and daughters. He dies for those worthy of death. He lives for those unworthy of life. God is no hypocrite, for in the end, justice will be done. God is no bigot, for He tolerates even the intolerable for a time. God is not full of hatred, God is love, and shows His love for us in this: While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. It takes an excessive amount of pride to reject that love.