Posts Tagged ‘hypocrisy’
Introducing Judge Bob Yeah, That’s Me
All right. I’m just getting started on WordPress, so bear with me as I get familiar with the tools and options. What follows is my profile. So, this information will always be available on my profile page. I’ve been blogging over at blogspot and then VOX for several years and I’m only here because I bought domain space and am required to use WordPress to post there. I still haven’t figured out how to use this tool there, but hope to have that site up and running soon. So, you can view my previous work at:
http://judgeright.blogspot.com
This whole judging theme got started because I was on Yahoo’s Answers and, aiming to answer serious questions by kids who maybe were using the anonymity of the setting to ask embarrassing questions or questions that were politically incorrect, I quite often would be condemned for being critical of certain faiths, certain behaviors, and certain individuals. I’d even been reprimanded for ‘hate speech’ by the Yahoo moderators. So, I went hunting for a venue where I could publish my answers offsite then send the kids to that sight for complete answers to their troublesome queries in polite company. Now that’s how I got started but the blogs have developed into their own thing. They have become a place for debate, discussion, entertainment, and education. I have enough different pages online now that I can sort of focus them on various topics. One for politics/current events, another for morality issues and yet another for self improvement/happiness. I haven’t yet determined which should be which yet, but I’m leaning toward VOX for the happiness topic and this one for morality issues. If that works then I’ll make the paid space the general home with links to the rest for trackbacks. This way one crowd won’t be drowned with information they’re not interested in.
That said, I want to make clear that I have no letters beside my name. I haven’t earned an MBA or a PhD and I’ve never served as any form of legal adviser or advocate. The title comes from folks commenting on the blogs calling me Judge because of the blog title. My only authority to advise comes in the form of the school of hard knocks. I’ve bumped around this old rock long enough to have learned a few things and made enough mistakes to know some of what doesn’t work. As one shade tree philosopher put it, “Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from poor judgment.”
How do you know what is true and right and good? You use your judgment. When you hear truth, if you contain your prejudices, (feelings) you know it in your spirit. (conscience) — That one’s from me, though I doubt I’m the first to utter those words.
“After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love doesn’t mean possession and company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child. And you learn to build your roads today because tomorrows ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure that you really are strong and you really do have worth…and you learn and you learn.” –Veronica A. Shoffstall
The following is my response to a commenter hypocritically condemning me for judging people, specifically homosexual behaviors.
I demand an apology from leftist hypocrites or anybody who’s ever condemned a Christian for judging. I and my entire faith have been labeled hypocrites for exercising our God given responsibility to use good judgment. You have managed to convince nearly all of pop culture to judge and condemn us for judging. By mis-application of our scriptures, you take one verse out of context and reduce thousands of years of wisdom to a three word bumper sticker slogan, “Don’t Judge People” or “You Shouldn’t Judge” effectively hijacking the lesson it was meant to teach and twisting it to fit your self centered agenda to continue in whatever sin you feel judged for. I’d be shocked if any of you could name the verse you so glibly quote to justify this charge against us. Even if you could, you wouldn’t be able to quote the next verse or any other verse that supports it, yet you have the nerve to quote our Holy Book to us without any understanding of its proper application.
I will rip your self righteous prejudiced condemnation of us to shreds and expose your hypocrisy before God and everybody if you try doing that to my face. If you ever do decide to read a scripture, try this verse; [John 7:24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.“] Oh my God, open these hearts to the truth and make them face their shame for shaming the righteous. Don’t snort! We know we are not perfect, neither are we wrong about this. Righteousness is one of those buzz words you hypocrites, who don’t like being judged, but enjoy judging us for. If you had any idea what righteousness we speak of, you’d know your judgment of us is unfounded and just plain wrong.
I suppose you’ll try to judge and condemn me for being angry next. When I am wronged, and especially when my entire faith is condemned on the basis of a prejudice, I have, not only a right, but a responsibility to be angry. Its called righteous anger and the Bible reference for that is Eph 4:25-27. [25 Therefore, putting away lying, each one speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and do not sin” do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil.] It means I have to speak the truth, it means I have to say it in the face of those indulging in self delusion. It means I shouldn’t bottle it up because that would give place to the devil using it in me to create my own prejudice. So if you don’t like being judged with righteous proper judgment, tough, that doesn’t give you license to judge us with prejudice and unrighteous improper judgment.
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Now I am generally a happy person, but nothing pushes my buttons like the leftist hypocrisy of condemning Christians’ judgment. Not because Christians judge well, but because it has turned into such an anti-wisdom mantra that our kids are walking out into life with the belief that their own common sense is an evil bigotry that needs, indeed must be fought off. How on earth are they going to survive if they think their preference for one friend over another, or one mentor over another, or one religion over another is bigotry? Here, listen to this preacher present it better than I ever could. And here you can listen to Charles Barkley repeat that anti-wisdom prejudiced mantra on TV! What a case of perfected wisdom and insight, that one? And he wants to be a leader in this nation?