People who are churchgoers that are saints in their church environment, yet once they are home and behind closed doors they turn into the most devilish people who operate with the most malignant intent towards others around them (especially people who aren’t part of their church, congregation, or social circle of religious peers), they need to be exposed for the fraudulent actors that they are.

They are a disgrace to the very faith that they claim to represent, as they weaponize religion and hide behind the church, religious institutions, or other spiritual arenas as a mask to cover their cruelty.

This means the public image they present in church, religious gatherings, or other faith-based spaces is nothing more than a carefully constructed façade, a performance designed to win approval and admiration, while their private lives reek of predatory control, vindictive malice, the psychological tormenting of others, and a calculated delight in breaking down the dignity of anyone who exists outside of their bubble of counterfeit faith — which includes those who are not part of their inner tyrannical operations, those who can see through their charade, and those who are simply caught in their path.

And the longer such people are allowed to go unchecked, the more they corrode not only their own households but also the trust and fabric of the wider community around them that is forced to deal with their destructive behavior outside of their church environment. And left unchallenged, their hypocrisy can spread like a poison, teaching others that appearances matter more than integrity, and that being a despicable person can be excused as long as one can claim they go to church, attend faith-based functions, or hold a position in religious spaces.

So, while dealing with these types of bad faith actors, even if no one else around you can see it yet, keep your boundaries strong so that they can’t affect your self-worth, corrode your mental footing, or drain your spirit — and in time, their mask of fraudulent sanctity will slip and reveal itself for what it truly is. And when it does, others will finally see what you already knew all along, and you’ll still be standing with your integrity intact, while the other person crumbles beneath the weight of their own hypocrisy.

And while this isn’t about those authentic and genuine people of faith that attend services, participate in fellowship, or show up in their communities with sincerity, it is about the parasitic pretenders and predatory masqueraders who corrupt what faith is supposed to stand for and that spread psychospiritual decay throughout every place they move through, where in the end, the same corruption they spread outward will eventually devour them from within, leaving nothing but the ruins of the image that they once worked so hard to uphold.