Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged

There's a poor understanding of that phrase. I've never read the Bible, so I can't really say why. I can only tell you that for every person who uses that phrase to shame hateful people, there's another person who will use it to shame them.

From what I understand, the passage meant that you have to examine your own sins so that you can be a bit more objective when you judge. Because let's face it. You have to make judgment calls all the time, and trying to judge without judging is confusing and difficult. We're human beings, and it's part of what we do.

But the Bible also says to pass judgment on the sin, not the sinner. They say that only God (Jesus, but I used God because Jesus is not God; he was just a man who happened to be pretty tits) can judge whether or not a person is saved. That men may only judge sins based on the word of the Bible.

But of course, if we really followed that, then everything that extreme right-wing Christians do would be utterly useless and irrelevant, and if there's one thing is far-right nutjob hates, it's acknowledging that he's irrelevant. Holding up signs that say "GOD HATES FAGS" is irrelevant. Whether he hates fags or not isn't really up to you. Especially if the sin of faggotry get's washed away by being a Christian (as all sins apparently do; which is something that I guess I can accept).

So maybe I just get caught up in semantics. Maybe they're not saying that God hates the person. Maybe they really are just saying God hates that some dudes like a little dick in their diet. Maybe when they kill gay kids, they're just trying to help them wash the lecherous sins away. But is it really any of their business to judge that I'm a sinner? We're all sinners. What difference does you adding a little hate into the mix make besides being a big fat downer on top of it all?