Re: Re: Question?
By: Bill McGarrity to Charon on Tue Feb 18 2014 15:01:00
>> How can you accuse me of judging if you aren't making a judgement.
>> Scripture says to judge rightly. "Do not judge, so that you won't be
>> judged. For with judgement you use, you will be judged and with the
>> measure you use, it will measured to you." Matthew 7:1-2. This
>> teaches that God does judge, and we should refrain from judgement
>> where possible. However, it doesn't teach to ignore wrong. If
>> someone murdered your family, you would rightly judge their actions
>> to be evil and desire justice.
I always find it funny how very friggin hypocritical so many bible-thumpers
(and presumably koran, bhagadvad ita, and buddhist text thumpers, as well) are
about their faith. I've got a massive problem with people who claim to be
massively Xtian (or any other religion, if they don't uphold the tenets), talk
about YHVH all effin' day long, try to preach to and convert everyone, yet
behave absolutely contrary to all of the moral guidelines. Even if you
confront them calmly, in a positive manner, it seems to be such an offense to
them that they end up getting pissed and breaking even more of the moral
guidelines.
For instance, back in the days when I was still a pretty angsty, late teens
and early 20s punk, I bumped into a fellow who had to say 'Praise Jesus' every
few minutes. At some point I basically told him that if his god approved of
the way _he_ acted (threatening, intimidating, and assaulting various
individuals), that that particular diety could suck a fart out of my ass and
that I wanted nothing to do with them. He immediately threatened to beat the
effbomb out of me. I asked him if that's what his Christian god would want him
to do. He answered 'yes', and just about started crying because he was so
pissed off (there were authority figures around; he couldn't just assault me
without suffering severe repercussions in the environment that we were in). I
went off a little bit on the whole 'turn the other cheek' preachings, but he
maintained that Jesus himself wanted him to beat my ass.
A little while later, the same guy went and decided to seek out a particular
counselor at that institution. She was a catholic, I believe, like him, and
_very_ devout. It was her job to assist every student/resident in her wing and
take them under her wing. She was one of those people who came to a
federally funded (DOL) institution on Ash Wednesday with a big, greasy ash
cross on her forehead and didn't wash it off all day long. I thought she was
going to have integrity and carry out the duties in line with her position as
counselor, while trying to make the peace between us.
Nope. She told him that he shouldn't kick my ass, but that he should do
exactly what she was going to do with me from there on out. She was going to
wait until I needed help for some reason, and then let me fall down, down,
down, on my face, instead of doing her job.
I hate hypocrites. That is all.
--Damo dice, "Perhaps today IS a good day to die!"
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