Why are Christians so judgmental, when they are taught NOT to be?

Answer 1

Because they know how much fun they had before they were saved and it pisses them off to see others still having more fun than themselves. The self-righteous bastards! LOL

Answer 2

Okay, let's just say that Christians are taught to be nonjudgemental, then we should be aware that the things that bug us are also the things we too are guilty of. But I have a point to make here 'we are not taught not to judge others' on the contrary. If you look at the whole passage in the Bible it says --

Matthew 7:
1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. "

Clearly we will all be judged, that is what the day of judgement is for, but we are not to be self-rightous, we are to only judge by God's standards not ours. He wants us to discern (judge) what his will for our lives are. He also wants us to judge between right and wrong. He also has said that will can judge a tree be its fruit.
Here's another example from the Bible that again says will ARE to judge.

1 Corinthians 6:3
Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

So before you start to pick on people about what we are taught you might want to know the WHOLE picture. I say this in a hope that education might happen for truths sake and not to be right but to show what is right and true. May God have mercey on your soul.

Answer 3

It isn't the religion or faith per se....it's the whole idea someone came up with ages ago, somewhere between St. Paul and Medieval Roman Catholicism, that your faith can also be your politics and that your Church can and *should* be an Empire.

Basically, you are confusing, as the christianoids themselves do, the issues of faith and redemption with the whole "power-grab in the here and now" business, wherein "shepherds" only seek to make the biggest and most hostile flocks, and then march them off the nearest cultural cliffs....

It isn't the faith....it's the evangelicalism. It's the fundamentalism. It is the corruption of what is otherwise noble and good into a cult of personality and conformity. It's geo-politics *impersonating* faith under the guise of a messianic "end of days" scenario.


Ok, ok, I'm done with the polite version. The truth is this.

When you are born and raised in a family that aspires to be devout but is put under constant pressure to perform and is never *ever* allowed to rest assured that their God truly loves them and has *in fact* redeemed them....what you get are kids trapped, whole generations at a time, in a vicious cycle of being browbeaten into believing that *faith* trumps everything, and that *reason* in particular, or *having free will* of your own, isn't just *a sin* but THE SIN.

In short, what you get are kids brainwashed into believing that to earn the love of their God, they have to become mindless sheep who will follow, as lemmings do, their Maximum Leader until he goes over the edge of a cliff and beyond.

But people are *supposed* to think, thinking is what we do best. We have free will for a reason, and if you think being denied sex makes folks crazy, try denying them the freedom of their own thoughts. :)

*That* is what you are seeing in the hypocrisy of the Christianoids and the Wahabbi Muslimoids, just as example. You are seeing the madness that occurs when people are afflicted with the delusion of aspiring to be sheep.

Pity the madness is going to devour all that is actually *good* about faith, isn't it? Once people get fed up, they *will* throw the baby out with the bathwater and religion will *die* much as it did in the old Soviet Union: a hard, twisted, lingering death.

Answer 4

They usually forget the most important thing about faith is love. I'm a Christian myself and I won't why so many go out spreading hate and telling people they're going to hell and all this rubbish. In the end only God can judge, and that's the way it should be because people can't judge accurately at all. I guess it's mostly because the Bible lets the reader interpret what's in it for themselves, and many people interpret things in it to mean that they can judge others. Just as well, Christians seem to like to judge people about overly scandalous matters like homosexuality, while ignoring that judging others is in fact a sin. This is partly a product of culture and partly because of accounts in the Old Testament of God coming down hard on sinners. Still, if you read the New Testament Jesus never said anything about homosexuality. His primary message is to love God and to love others like God loves us, and the rest is really just details and unimportant as long as there is love. To tell you the truth I usually find myself more at home crying with the "sinners" that laughing with the "saints", because I know I am a sinner as much as anyone else is, and far be it from me to judge anyone.

Answer 5

We are called to judge but judge righteously. By God's standards not our own. I don't have a heaven or hell to put you in but God does.
If we were both on a plane and the pilot announced that the plane was about to crash and we had to grab parachutes. But your parachute wasn't really a parachute it was a bag full of dirty laundry would you still be telling me that I am judging you? If all I was trying to do was tell you that your bag is dirty clothes, would I still be judging you. I would hope you would want me to tell you the truth. Well that's all Christians are doing. Everyone is so quick to quote Matthew 7:1 Judge not lest you be judge. Christians get beat over the head with this one all the time. But I found 2 verses that most don't know Leviticus 19:15 commands us 'Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly." And Jesus Himself taught in John 7:24 "Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment." So If I know your having sex with someone your not married to it is my job to tell you the truth with love. Not to beat you over the head but with love. Now you have free choice not to listen. But everyone knows the outcome of most adultery, so don't come home crying when someone told you the truth about commiting adultery. If you have a problem with God's laws take it up with him. Not his police force. And further more if I know your caught up in any sin against God It it my job as his police force to tell you what God says about it. You still have free will to choose to do whatever you want.

Answer 6

"Judge not lest you be judged. You therefore have no right to judge me when it comes to my sins!"

The world often takes this verse out of context and uses it to accuse Christians of being "judgmental" when they speak of sin. In the context of the verse Jesus is telling His disciples not to judge one another, something the Bible condemns (Romans 14:10; James 4:11). In Luke 6:41,42 He speaks of seeing a speck in a brother’s eye. In John 7:24 He said, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." If someone steals, lies, commits adultery or murder, etc., the Christian can make a (righteous) moral judgment and say that the actions were morally wrong, and that these sins will have eternal consequences. Chuck Colson said, "True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It’s knowing what should be tolerated—and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn’t."

Answer 7

This is a tough one. I know many Christians who aren't. However, it seems that the ones that are judgmental are the ultra, ultra orthodox. May it is because deep down they are not sure of their belief. So by judging others they confirm their own belief?

Answer 8

Not just christians, people of all religions, do not practice what is shared in their holy books. To love, to share, to respect, to help, to seek truth. All those who do, are worshipped and are refered to as saints, angels. Most Religious figures never never created monuments and lived by the nature helped, loved, healed, their fellow beings. The so called religions today are doing just the opposite, idle worship, control over others, judgemental etc.
Love

Answer 9

Most of them aren't...probably most of the one's you've met, or known. But most of the Christians I've met are really nice people. Almost made me want to become one. But I don't know... They tokk care of me when I was down and injured and had no money. They didn't judge me when I was a drunk or a drug addict. They stayed right there with me through it all. Came to the rehab to vistit me. One of them even bought me groceries every week when I was poor. That's what I've always heard being a Christian was all about. It's just that some people seem to run into all the bad ones that THINK their Christians. But my friend says those people just want something to make other people feel guilty about cause of all their guilt. He says they aren't real Christians and the Bible says so.

Answer 10

Most times people who are christian don't realize that it's the bible that judges not the individual.Accountability is actually the best judge.Holding yourself accountable leaves no room for others to judge you.Compare your life to scripture and the judge is the bible and your conscience.

Answer 11

I am a Christian and I am sorry if you have had dealings with a judgmental Christian. We should all strive to be nonjudgemental and those that do not strive to be that way make the rest of us look bad. Please remember that there are others who are Christians who do not judge people, or at least try their best not do so.