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"Judge Not Lest..." One Of Life's Most Misunderstood Principles

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“Judge not, lest ye be judged!”

This saying (originally from the Bible) has struck fear into the hearts of believers and non-believers alike for millennia. But misunderstanding of its meaning and implications is more the rule than the exception. In fact it all adds up to a false ideology. Let’s explore its tenants one by one…

1. In order to avoid judging others, we have a duty to assume that the world is fair and that other people are honest. Never mind whether it’s true or not, all decent people must believe this as a matter of principle, in order to prevent themselves from “judging” others. This we have an obligation to deceive ourselves by pretending that most people are better than they really are, and that we are dumber than we really are (otherwise we’re being “cynical”). We are obligated to judge (woops!) others as being honest and fair, no matter if the evidence of our eyes and our brains scream otherwise.

2. If we think we see somebody doing something wrong, we should look in the mirror and accuse ourselves of being paranoid, cynical, nosy, and of using it all as an excuse not to take responsibility for our own lives. Don’t worry, it’s perfectly OK to judge ourselves; in fact it’s our duty. We must be careful to blame ourselves first, even when we didn’t do anything wrong – making false accusations against ourselves is a virtue known as “humility”.

3. We must never trust our own judgment (that would be “judging”), but rather we must replace our own judgments with the judgments of other people (somehow that’s not “judging”). Otherwise, we should stick our heads in the sand and pretend that we don’t see what’s going on or that we’re too dull-witted to see through someone else’s deception, even if that deception is being used to harm us or someone we love. After all, we should all “mind our own business”, shouldn’t we?

4. As long as we do exactly what we’re told and don’t ask questions, everything will be just fine. And if other people walk all over us and the people we care about, then that must be God’s will (or “fate” if you’re not a believer).

5. We must never, ever stand up for what we believe is right. After all, who are we to judge what’s right and wrong? Only “other people” are allowed to do that, at least when they’re busy judging us. We must never, EVER confront anyone, no matter what they do (after all, “the meek shall inherit the Earth”).

Sound familiar? That’s the BS that many of us were brought up on. Take the truth and twist it a half turn, and what you get is a monstrosity. Many of us were raised to live in a world that doesn’t exist and never did.

But our parents didn’t invent these ideas – they taught them to us by word and example because they believed it (or at least pretended to themselves that they believed it). It was sold to them by the power-hungry Pharisees, both religious and secular, who run most of our schools and churches. Telling people to close their eyes to evil and putting them on permanent defensiveness is a great way to render them docile and compliant so that you can manipulate them mercilessly (and butter your bread with their 10% “tithes”, which obligation I might add is found nowhere in the New Testament).

Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross for a particular purpose – to take away the sins of all who would believe. But he neither minced his words nor pulled his punches, and he wouldn’t put up with gratuitous abuse – not from the Pharisees, not from the money-changers at the temple. Why do you think they wanted to kill him in the first place? Cause he pissed them off, that’s why.

Don’t fall for it. Most of us could be doing more for the world than we are, but we’ve spent most of our lives letting the smooth tongues of phonies and hypocrites snuff out the light in our hearts, and then patting ourselves on the back and calling it virtue.

Sacrifice, yes. Victimhood – NO!

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Jake Danger is an inmate residing in the cellar of the Oakfield Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. His website is called Lunatic Wisdom. He had to sneak past the nice men in white coats to post this article. Don’t believe a word he says.

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