"Hypocrisy begins in church"

Hypocrisy is as old as humanity. It's a human failing. Don't blame religion for deficiencies we all suffer from. 

The problem with religion is more that evil people use it as a weapon against others. But if there were no religions we would still have nasty people using whatever tools are available to coerce the gullible. Witness the use of "The Market" to force people to accept poverty. Or the use of communist ideology to force people to accept enslavement to a collectivist agenda. There are dozens (at least) of examples of reasonable ideas being used by hypocrites to bend others to their will. While claiming exemptions for themselves..