Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Daniel #157: You start by saying, ―All of us make judgments, Scaughdt … Some of
them are good and some are bad. Some of them are right and some are wrong … We make
judgments if someone is driving too slow … We decide which Facebook posts to comment on
and which to leave alone.‖
Yes, my Friend, this is quite true. And, if those judgments serve to CONDEMN others –
either for who they ARE (e.g. as a homosexual) or for actions they are taking that have no innocent
victims (e.g. choosing to engage in consensual homosexual sex), then those judgments quite clearly
express exactly the arrogant mentality that Jesus so vehemently denounces throughout
his ministry (see Matthew 18:3-4 & Matthew 23:12 et al) & exactly the bigoted beliefs that
he so definitively rejects in the Scriptures! (see Luke 6:36 & Matthew 5:39-48 et al)
Dan, how in the world can you seriously hope to squirm out of the very clear meaning of
the verses that follow? More importantly, why in the world would you ever want to do so?!?!?
―Why do you see the speck in your neighbor‘s eye, but do not notice the log in your own?
... You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to
remove the speck from your neighbor‘s ... You hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup
[of others], but inside are full of greed and self-indulgence ... First clean the inside of your own
cup, so that the outside might also become truly clean … Truly I tell you, unless you change and
become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever becomes
humble like this young child is the greatest in the Kingdom … Do not judge, so that you might
not be judged … Let he who is fully without sin cast the first stone.‖
~ Jesus (Matthew 7:3-5, Matthew 23:25-26, Matthew18:3-4, Matthew 7:1-2 & John 8:7)
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