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<blockquote data-quote="kmanian" data-source="post: 5828292" data-attributes="member: 561298">Go read it again, it say &quot;thou shall not judge lest ye be judged by the same measure.&quot;&quot; Matthew 7:1, as a stand-alone quotation, bring contextual justice to the point Jesus is making? Of course not. Later in the passage, Christ refers to certain people unable or unwilling to assimilate spiritual things. He refers to them figuratively as &quot;pigs&quot; and &quot;dogs.&quot; That sounds a bit like judging to me! In the book of John, Jesus talks of rendering a &quot;righteous judgement,&quot; rather than none at all. The point was never that we should not make moral judgments, or employ an ethical hierarchy in being discreet about evaluating &quot;right&quot; and &quot;wrong.&quot; The idea was that there should be no &quot;double-standards.&quot; We should not judge others by a standard we would not want to be judged with ourselves. This is how we avoid &quot;judgmentalism&quot; and cronin fault-finding. We are exhorted to correct our own hypocrisies before reforming the world.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kmanian, post: 5828292, member: 561298"] Go read it again, it say "thou shall not judge lest ye be judged by the same measure." " Matthew 7:1, as a stand-alone quotation, bring contextual justice to the point Jesus is making? Of course not. Later in the passage, Christ refers to certain people unable or unwilling to assimilate spiritual things. He refers to them figuratively as "pigs" and "dogs." That sounds a bit like judging to me! In the book of John, Jesus talks of rendering a "righteous judgement," rather than none at all. The point was never that we should not make moral judgments, or employ an ethical hierarchy in being discreet about evaluating "right" and "wrong." The idea was that there should be no "double-standards." We should not judge others by a standard we would not want to be judged with ourselves. This is how we avoid "judgmentalism" and cronin fault-finding. We are exhorted to correct our own hypocrisies before reforming the world." [/QUOTE]

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