Bruce Charlton once again is making up dogmatic bullshit. I don't feel any brotherhood with that overbearing Jew who thinks he knows what is right and wrong as if he appointed himself to be God.
The left and right are both trying to dictate morality. They both reach for top-down control, with the religious conservatives obfuscating their power trip in guise of religion being the absolute truth that everyone must follow lest we incorrigibles go to Hell and be disrespected in the Jewish or Christian circles.
None of them are following Jesus' wisdom in Matthew 6:5 to STFU and pray in their closet and leaving the judging about morality to God at the gate to heaven.
The quote was Bruce Charlton who is Christian not Jewish. The video clip is of Dennis Prager who is a conservative Jew.
As I said before I profoundly disagree with your interpretation of the book of Matthew.
A text taken out of context, becomes a pretext.
I disagree with the implication that Matthew 6:5 should be read as a prohibition against Bruce Charlton sharing his thoughts on religion with others on his private blog or Dennis Prager from sharing his understanding of the religious implications of the left right divide in his homemade video clips.
I would refer you to the following:
Mark 16:15
Matthew 24:14
Psalms 96:3
Revelation 14:6-7
Matthew 28:19-20
Judging the world around us is nothing more then a decision making process. It is the application of prior knowledge to make a determination about the state of current reality. It is a determination ultimately of what is true and what is false to the best of our limited ability.
If one tried to live by the principle that we can never make judgments one could not live life. The concept is ultimately incoherent.
The Book of Matthew is not telling us to do the impossible. It is telling us the proper way to consider others who are living in a way we disagree with. It warns us that ultimately we ourselves will be held to the same harsh standards we apply to others.
Matthew 7:1
(1) Judge not, that you be not judged. (2) For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. (3) And why behold you the mote that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? (4) or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye? (5)You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye.When we judge we should strive to be free of hypocrisy. Given flawed human nature this necessitates that the focus of our judgement should primarily be focused inward on ourselves. We should strive to first consider the beam in our own eye as this is the primary problem. Only after we fix ourselves are we in a position to help others fix themselves.
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