I'm judging you. Yes, you. I'm doing it right now. As I type these thoughts I'm judging you and everything you believe in. Some Christians have prayer lists, but I have judging lists. That's my job as a Christian after all, to judge the world and everything in it.
I'll never understand the people who have problems with judging. I'll be walking along and I'll notice a guy eating his own baby. So I'll walk over to him and tell him that I really don't think it's right for him to eat his own baby. He'll roll his eyes at me and tell me not to judge. I'll start to get frustrated and tell him to think about the baby, but then the baby will look me in the eye and ask who I am to tell his father that he shouldn't eat his own baby. Then I'll turn to the streets and start screaming for help, and the passersby will point their finger at me and ask where I get off defining what's actually right and wrong. They obviously don't realize that I'm a Christian and therefore entitled to judging the world.
These replies are common. In our culture it's wrong to judge and to tell another person how to live. This really pisses me off. I've always wanted to start a competition with my fellow Christians where we go out on the streets and judge everyone. Calling people out for certain sins would be worth more points than other sins, and you can get point multipliers by finding more than one sin on an individual person. I would be the official judge of the competition and I'd give the winner a bunch of those little pamphlets that tell people they're going to hell if they don't believe everything that we do.
People would have a problem with this because of all the judging and they'd probably shut us down. That's what pisses me off. They're ignoring the fact that they're using their judgment to judge me for using my judgment as a judge to judge my contestants in using their judgment on how to judge the heathens for their judgment to be the judge of judging their own lifestyle.
...wait, what?
Perhaps that wasn't a clear analogy to use to get my point across.
The point is that it's judgmental to tell me that I shouldn't judge. Who are they to tell me that I shouldn't judge? Do they really think that they know it's wrong to judge?
All this silly nonsense about not judging doesn't live up to its own standard.
People judge all the time. Suppose I gave you the choice between eating a bag of Twizzlers and a jar of pickled pigs feet which would you choose? Did you make a judgment between the two? Who are you to judge?
Do you get angry when you watch the Olympics because they only give three medals away? Do you write the judges angry letters and ask them to work on their own athletic abilities before they judge others on theirs?
All judgment means is to make a distinction. To apply a property to one object that you don't apply to another. Twizzlers are delicious, pickled pigs feet are gross. This man can run so far this fast, that man can't.
What's missing from the statement that we should not judge is a qualification for why we should not judge. If someone was lighting puppies on fire then we are allowed to tell them they really shouldn't do that. Unless, of course, they were shooting them out of cannons as well because that would just be awesome. They can't tell us that we shouldn't judge them unless they can show either (1) there is no discernible difference between lighting a puppy on fire and not lighting a puppy on fire, (2) there is nothing morally different between lighting a puppy on fire and not lighting a puppy on fire, or (3) we cannot know if there is anything morally different between lighting a puppy on fire and not lighting a puppy on fire.
This, however, is never shown. We all know that there is a difference in acting one way compared to another. We just don't like it when we're called out on it and so we have this self-defense mechanism of moral agnosticism to throw up whenever the moral law comes knocking on our door.
I'd like to leave you with some advice on how to properly judge others. I am, after all, a Christian, and therefore an expert in the matter. First, judge. Do it. Do it to everyone all the time. This is so you can guard yourself from making the same mistakes. Second, only call someone out when it really matters. We're all human and therefore open to making mistakes. A lot of them at that. Most people are aware of their own sins. Third, if you're a Christian then hold fellow believers to higher standards than the non-believer. This isn't because we're better than them, it's just that we should know better than them. The non-Christians are prisoners of the Devil and we should live a life that reflects our freedom from him. Fourth, when you judge someone make sure you're holding yourself accountable to what you are saying as well. This is what Jesus is talking about when people try and quote Him out of context on telling us not to judge. And lastly, have some compassion. Say what you mean, and mean what you say, but for the love of God, have some compassion.
I'll never understand the people who have problems with judging. I'll be walking along and I'll notice a guy eating his own baby. So I'll walk over to him and tell him that I really don't think it's right for him to eat his own baby. He'll roll his eyes at me and tell me not to judge. I'll start to get frustrated and tell him to think about the baby, but then the baby will look me in the eye and ask who I am to tell his father that he shouldn't eat his own baby. Then I'll turn to the streets and start screaming for help, and the passersby will point their finger at me and ask where I get off defining what's actually right and wrong. They obviously don't realize that I'm a Christian and therefore entitled to judging the world.
These replies are common. In our culture it's wrong to judge and to tell another person how to live. This really pisses me off. I've always wanted to start a competition with my fellow Christians where we go out on the streets and judge everyone. Calling people out for certain sins would be worth more points than other sins, and you can get point multipliers by finding more than one sin on an individual person. I would be the official judge of the competition and I'd give the winner a bunch of those little pamphlets that tell people they're going to hell if they don't believe everything that we do.
People would have a problem with this because of all the judging and they'd probably shut us down. That's what pisses me off. They're ignoring the fact that they're using their judgment to judge me for using my judgment as a judge to judge my contestants in using their judgment on how to judge the heathens for their judgment to be the judge of judging their own lifestyle.
...wait, what?
Perhaps that wasn't a clear analogy to use to get my point across.
The point is that it's judgmental to tell me that I shouldn't judge. Who are they to tell me that I shouldn't judge? Do they really think that they know it's wrong to judge?
All this silly nonsense about not judging doesn't live up to its own standard.
People judge all the time. Suppose I gave you the choice between eating a bag of Twizzlers and a jar of pickled pigs feet which would you choose? Did you make a judgment between the two? Who are you to judge?
Do you get angry when you watch the Olympics because they only give three medals away? Do you write the judges angry letters and ask them to work on their own athletic abilities before they judge others on theirs?
All judgment means is to make a distinction. To apply a property to one object that you don't apply to another. Twizzlers are delicious, pickled pigs feet are gross. This man can run so far this fast, that man can't.
What's missing from the statement that we should not judge is a qualification for why we should not judge. If someone was lighting puppies on fire then we are allowed to tell them they really shouldn't do that. Unless, of course, they were shooting them out of cannons as well because that would just be awesome. They can't tell us that we shouldn't judge them unless they can show either (1) there is no discernible difference between lighting a puppy on fire and not lighting a puppy on fire, (2) there is nothing morally different between lighting a puppy on fire and not lighting a puppy on fire, or (3) we cannot know if there is anything morally different between lighting a puppy on fire and not lighting a puppy on fire.
This, however, is never shown. We all know that there is a difference in acting one way compared to another. We just don't like it when we're called out on it and so we have this self-defense mechanism of moral agnosticism to throw up whenever the moral law comes knocking on our door.
I'd like to leave you with some advice on how to properly judge others. I am, after all, a Christian, and therefore an expert in the matter. First, judge. Do it. Do it to everyone all the time. This is so you can guard yourself from making the same mistakes. Second, only call someone out when it really matters. We're all human and therefore open to making mistakes. A lot of them at that. Most people are aware of their own sins. Third, if you're a Christian then hold fellow believers to higher standards than the non-believer. This isn't because we're better than them, it's just that we should know better than them. The non-Christians are prisoners of the Devil and we should live a life that reflects our freedom from him. Fourth, when you judge someone make sure you're holding yourself accountable to what you are saying as well. This is what Jesus is talking about when people try and quote Him out of context on telling us not to judge. And lastly, have some compassion. Say what you mean, and mean what you say, but for the love of God, have some compassion.
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