At the Table of Hypocrisy

Why are Christians so rude? I have just been over at WorldMagBlog and read a post about servers in restaurants and Christians. As usual, it was not the post that was the most interesting, it was the conversation going on in the comments. It seems that I am not the only one who has noticed how rude Christians tend to be when they go out to eat. They order their food, pray over it, complain about it and the service, then leave an ungenerous tip. It would not make me as upset if they had not bothered to pray over the food, advertising that they were Christians, before all of their complaining, but when they do so, they are bad witnesses.

As Christians, we are always talking about kindness, generosity, and the like, but that talk does not necessarily translate into actions. There is talk about grace, forgiveness, and mercy, but that grace, forgiveness, and mercy are not always shown to those around them, such as the servers at a restaurant. Sometimes they are slow for a reason (i.e. other difficult customers, spills, etc.) and people need to have compassion on them. Sure, they are there to serve you, but couldn't you also serve them and make their job just a little easier by showing them kindness and a little generosity?