Why are most Christians so judgemental?

Question

Being one myself, I have never understood this. I was taught to love everyone for who they are. Your thoughts?

Answer 1

I'm not judgemental at all, and I am a Catholic Christian. One of my close friends is a lesbian, and she has a heart of gold. It's not our place to judge...that's God's work. I just be the best I can and help those in need.

Answer 2

Yes, we must love love everyone, and I think I do love everyone regardless of his colour, nationality, educational, social and financial status, or religious conviction, but we also have the obligation to witness about what we believe to other people. We have to show what we think is good according to the Bible without being judgmental.

If I saw a fruit seller peddling his mangoes and without tasting it I said that man's mangoes are all sour. That is judgmental.
But if I say, my mangoes are sweet because I have tasted it and it is so. I am not being jdgmental but I am witnessing what I know from first hand experience.

if I haven't read a book and exprienced its teaching and declare that it is wrong, I become judgmental. But if Ihave read and can back what I say with facts and personal experience but the book, than I am not being judgmental, I am just testifying.

Answer 3

You may love everyone for WHO they are, but if your particular religion considers people who believe differently to be LOST, then a judgment has occurred to reach that conclusion.

Let's look at the flip side. No one is to judge anyone else's religion (might be considered judgmental if we did). We all accept everything. As a Christian, I now accept Jesus, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Buddha, Confucius and a number of other founders of the faiths as equals. I can get to heaven by agreeing with the Mormons, Baptists, Moslems or Jews. Any of them will take me to the same place. Makes no difference which one I choose since they are all equal. Who's ready to do that? It doesn't matter what you believe anyway.

Answer 4

Why, have you met at least half the population of the Christians to be able to say that? Aren't you the one being judgmental for generalizing that "MOST Christians" are judgmental? Even if you have met more or less a thousand Christians, your "generalization" is still not statistically significant considering the millions of Christians in the world.

But to answer your question, people in general (not only Christians, as you say) are judgmental because of their beliefs or already-made constructions (or schema) of thinking abt. the world). It's abt. not being able to understand differences, and feelings of superiority. Ingroup bias explains a lot for the prejudice we do and experience from others.

Btw, I'm not a Christian. But I understand your simplifying tendency in your way of thinking; thinking in categories and stereotypes makes understanding the complex world easier.

Answer 5

Everyone is judgmental. Religion doesn't change this. I'm sick of people labeling Christians as such. Just because some are "judgmental" doesn't mean everyone else is! I don't feel this is concurrent with the majority of Christians at all, and is thus unfairly applied.
I honestly can't comprehend this question fully. I hope I didn't misconstrue anything, but I can't help feeling offended. I somewhat agree with Amygdala, who put it far better than I did.

Answer 6

I think christians are so judgemental even to their own people. i think maybe sometimes we are convicted and feel guilty about the sin or temptation in our own lives and instead of admitting it, ,just judge other people who have the same issues instead. There's also a lot of competition in the Christian world for biggest, best, most powerful, most humble, most spiritual, most converts, etc.

Answer 7

If someone is clearly doing something that is in violation of God's law, you are certainly within your right to judge that action and call it what it is, namely sin. However, make sure that you're not condemning or chastising someone for doing something that you have done yourself because that is hypocrisy. Jesus said and I'm paraphrasing here that you need to remove the log from your own eye before you can remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Answer 8

Christians defend themselves when faced with people with strong opposing beliefs voice them in a confrontational way. And people call us Christians judgemental when we refuse to compromise our belief to fit the rest of societies.

Answer 9

Me too. I feel like I'm the only one sometimes.
It's hard not to fall into that trap too.... do you find yourself
having to take a step back and walk away from alot of your fellow Christians? This is a problem for me too.
I don't like that at all.

Answer 10

We judge what is evil and what is good based on the Gods standards. Christians are mandated NOT to hate people, but hate sin and judge it accordingly. The people that do evil feel judged and take it personally that their evil ways are being judged evil and their feelings get hurt because neither we nor God approves of what they do. Nevertheless we must judge what is evil and what is good.

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. -Romans 12:9