I’m concerned about the path some Christians are heading. There are beliefs such as not passing any judgment on others or keeping religious beliefs out of politics tends to perpetuate a secular ideology that Christians should not express their opinions to the world or influence society with what they believe. It would seem to me that if you truly believed in something as good why would you not try to help others learn about the good. You know who else believed those secular ideologies? Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, and all other Socialist and communist regimes.

You can look up their quotes about religion and politics and you will learn very quickly that they did not want the influence of religion to impede their plans. That belief is at the heart of Marxist-Communist teachings, Post Modernism and modern Progressivism are an evolution of Marxist ideologies but those who have those secular beliefs have no interest in learning how or why that is. Or, they do what people do. Rationalize until they can internally justify their beliefs. It is also true that the Church used religion to justify many atrocities in history but secular ideology would have you believe that they have the answers. However, they seem to be completely blind to or willfully ignorant of the failures of their ideologies. Which consequently are much more recent in history and it does not appear they have learned yet from their mistakes.

At its core, religion is a philosophy of truth for life. Secular society also uses any number of random philosophies of truth for life. Their god, or gods are other humans and objects such as Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Junge, Niche, or even mother nature. All of the greatest Philosophers had disagreements and contradictions, all had failures, and nearly all, interestingly enough, drew upon the Bible for their teachings.

Ask a admitted Marxist, Socialist, or Communist (Someone who actually knows what those mean and the true teachings) about what they think of religion you will learn quite quickly they are no friend to Christianity, or religion of any kind. Many of the prisoners in Russian Gulag prisons were Christians. Under Nazi Germany some Christians aligned themselves with the government, while others spoke up against them and were killed. Christians were only useful in these regimes insofar as they went along with what the government said/believed or they would be killed or imprisoned. A Christian in their governments were viewed as an obedient dog that if it got out of line or lost it’s usefulness would be put down.

On the topic of judgement secular believers want you to think that Jesus calls us not to judge anyone under any cercumstance I think this is completely false. To help or take care of someone in poverty means simply give money, buying things for them, or feed them without identifying the reason they are in poverty. I think it is of utmost importance that a true Christian help identify those problems and encourage someone to realize that the best course of action may be to call them out to help them identify the personal decisions and behaviors that may be why they are in their predicament. Love and kindness does not mean acceptance and agreement like secular society and secular Christians seem to think.

A loving parent corrects a child through discipline, a loving friend disagrees and admonishes a friend when their friend is making self destructive decisions. At times love and kindness may mean walking away from someone you love so as to not enable their self destructive behavior. In sll these situations you are judging, and making judgements. If a persons poverty is due to sloth are we to do things that encourage or enable them in sloth? Does God say we should enable sin by turning a blind eye or to encourage destructive behavior through our actions in the name of kindness, love, or acceptance? There are those in poverty through no fault of their own and there are those whose decisions cause them to remain in poverty. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do for someone is to call them into accepting responsibility for their actions.

I encourage you to study the Bible about sloth. Why is it reasonable to believe that a cause of poverty is at times due to laziness or sloth? Well, because it is easily proven objectively, but if you are using faith and the Bible as your source it says quite clearly a result of sloth is poverty. If I can identify someone whose cause for their poverty is sloth I will judge them using my judgement to tell them stop being lazy. bydoing so I can help them get out of poverty by not encouraging their sloth but by helping them make better choices and encouraging them to not sin in that way. Am I projecting my beliefs on them, yes. Is that wrong, no. Secular Christians think their Christian beliefs should be secondary to secular beliefs. I belief this view is akin to Judas denying Jesus. No one has ever said that all poverty is the result of being lazy, but sloth is a cause of poverty in many. To ignore that fact is doing a disservice to them.

I also hate the argument that we don’t judge others because all judgement will come in the end by God. Yes, ultimate judgement will but that does not free us from using discernment and our judgement to do what is right or call out another believer or non believer when they are wrong.

I think there is a lot of confusion when it comes to the term judgement in the Christian faith. I believe God doesn’t want us to judge the determination of who is worthy of final judgement to be in the kingdom of heaven. We are not to write someone off or do things to prevent them from having the opportunity to know him and be saved. Final judgement is Gods.

Many will quote the Bible verse about the speck in another eye vs plank in your own as a reason to not judge others. That is absolutely not the intent of the passage. The passage literally means to work on your own problems and acknowledge your own failures. Know that many of your problems lie within ourselves. Do not look to others or blame others or the world for my problems until I have looked internally at myself. Christians should and are absolutely called to judge sins and not encourage those sins through apathy. A Christian cannot determine who will be saved because we can never know someones true heart and self. But to say you are not allowed to judge sin as sin and evil as evil because it is only up to God to do so is just foolish.

Further, the verses about not judging others do not mean we cannot judge a case and judge the behavior of others in light of what we believe. To do so is abdication of your responsibility as a Christian to spread the word. You essentially are taking on a non interventionist stance which favors secular ideologies over Christian beliefs. We are not to encourage sinful behavior by ignoring it or be apathetic to the sins of ourselves, friends, or family. The Devil is happy when we do so because there is no wordly corrective influence on what is evil or sinful which allows the devil unfettered access to sinner souls.

Is it just, good, or wise for a parent to ignore the sins or bad behavior of their child because according to secular Christianity we are called to not “judge”? Is it just, wise, or good for a friend to not judge another for their destructive choices or sinful behavior and avoid telling them they are wrong and need to change their ways. Or is it just, wise, or good, to not tell someone who wants to be a believer that what they are doing is a sin, to help them acknowledge that sin, and encourage them to ask for forgiveness? We cannot provide final judgement or determination of the sincerity of one’s request for forgiveness but we sure can use judgement to help them.

Dueteronomy 1:17 You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

Also, Matthew was quite judgemental to the Pharisees. Matthew 23: 13-15 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves”. Seems pretty judgy to me. Calling out sins and hypocracy.

John 5:30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

The whole don’t judge because God will judge is a secular cop out for secular society to escape negative feedback on their views and behaviors by believers so they can continue their behavior unfettered. It is a way for secularism to silence discourse and dissent from Christians and Christians are buying it. It is also a way for Christians to avoid the uncomfortableness of having to confront someone’s sin with love just as a parent does to a child, or a true friend to another.