It worries me a lot when religious people quote the Bible as instructions for judging people. Over the years I've heard verses quoted (usually from the Old Testament) that justified slavery and the inherent "less-than" status of African Americans (the Curse of Ham), justification of putting people to death who had sex in other ways than the mainstream, and other very scary things.
I was taught at the church I attended that the Old Testament was just that - old- and that the New Testament was what we should pay attention to. That would pretty much get rid of the instructions not to eat pork, put people to death who had sex outside marriage, put people to death who were attracted to their own sex, and to treat people of different races as less than. I don't want to believe in a God that doesn't love His/Her own creations.
I think after observing all these years of my life, that we humans like to judge others so that we feel better about ourselves. (I include myself in this, by the way. I'm always working to lose this negative trait, though.) We know we're not at all perfect but we don't like to face that. So we cut others down. What a crappy way to live that is.
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