Are there hypocrites in the church? A HYPOCRITE is a person who pretends to have beliefs or practices which he or she does not actually possess. In all honesty, have you ever been hypocritical about something? Who hasn't? We all get caught up in our reflection. We all want to be seen – to be important – to be valuable. But that desire to be important can make it so that our Christianity gets warped. And if we are not careful, our faith can be deformed by the very traps that snared the religious and righteous Pharisees of Bible times.