JUDGING AND BEING JUDGEMENTAL
Judging is to regard a person as a wrongdoer deserving of disapproval and condemnation and retribution.
Christians seem to define non-judgmental as meaning that you wait
for the sinner to repent and forgive when they do. Just as to
hate reproductive rights is to hate women especially the vulnerable
women who need them, so this loving the sinner and hating the sin is
not love but a passive aggressive pretence.
Some Christians lie that Jesus condemned judging. He did not. He only said that
before you judge make sure you are not worse than the person you judge. He said
you may see the speck in the eye of another and ignore the plank in your own. He
said get rid of the plank and then judge.
Christians say he forbade hypocritical judgement in saying all that. He actually
forbade unfair judgement. It is not fair to judge somebody who is not as bad as
you.
Other Christians say we must judge the sin and not the sinner. This makes
absolutely no sense at all. It only makes a hypocrite of the person who claims
to believe it.
Those who when their actions are condemned say, "You have no right to tell me
what I am doing is wrong - judge not that you be not judged." They are
hypocrites who judge those who judge them. They are being judgemental though
they condemn being judgemental!
To judge that there is a God who will judge those who judge you is indirectly
judging them.
You insinuate that God will judge those who judge you! So you admit that judging
is not necessarily sinful! You want people to believe that judging need not be
sinful and is necessary. So you are humbly saying it is only sinful when you are
being judged!
The Catholics say you must tell those who have sex outside marriage for example
that they are doing a great wrong and that sex outside marriage is a sin that
merits everlasting torment in Hell from the moment of death. They deny that
saying this means they are judging the persons as going to Hell. There could be
weakness or ignorance that prevents them from deliberately committing a great
evil. Their responsibility might be mitigated. Also they might soon repent and
escape Hell so you cannot say they are already condemned to Hell. You cannot
judge them that way. The Church says it can judge that somebody is doing wrong
but they cannot judge the person's exact intentions. For example, murder is a
mortal sin but if the murderer was given drugs against his will it would mean he
was not being fully himself and so did not intend to commit a mortal sin.
Matthew 18 records that Jesus said that those who continue in sin after being
told they are sinners must be shunned.
Should the true Christian be constantly disapproving? Even if you say you cannot
judge a person as bad or how bad they are because you cannot know all about
them, then you are disapproving in the sense that, "They might be terrible
inside. They might not." That is light judgement not non-judgement.
Non-judgementalism is often a cover for hypocrisy.
Even believers do not put God first very much, it follows that the Christian
must always have a problem with everybody.