first of all, trying to talk about judgment is like trying to untangle Christmas lights that you knew you should have put away in an orderly manner last year but you didn't so now they're all screwed up.
second, people tell you not to judge but then they judge and when you point out to them that they judged they tell you not to judge. (Christmas lights!)
third........if we never judged, nobody would be in jail. that guy down the street who murdered his wife? he's after you next. cuz we shouldn't judge.
fourth, as if it isn't abundantly clear by now, we. judge. all. the. time. all of us! everybody! you! me! judges! (even, supposedly, supreme court ones. but don't get me started on that.)
what you really mean when you say "don't judge" is "don't judge me. or anyone who agrees with me." what you don't mean is "i won't judge you."
Christmas lights!
fifth (or is it sixth? Christmas lights!), everybody gets the "don't judge" that Christ talked about (and pope francis) all wrong. He (they) didn't mean don't judge behavior. Christ judged behavior 24/7 and flipped over tables all over the place on account of it! God handed down some fairly famous rules that everybody is now judging can't be displayed in a place where some people would judge them to be correctly displayed and those rules are full of judgments which is why nobody likes 'em. which is also a judgment.
originally, i intended for this blog post to be a lot longer than this but frankly? i'm irritated with this topic and with y'all and besides......
ima go bake some Christmas cookies.
