Can we Judge Others?

My message for today is that people who are quick to point out the sins of others need to rethink this practice. Our actions follow our attitudes. Most everybody believes that he or she has the capacity to judge between good and evil. If this proposition were true, we have managed to make a mess of things in spite of it. Racism comes to mind. A person who denigrates people of different color or culture might well decide that he or she is perfectly qualified to determine between good and evil. In truth, the existence of racism in a persons character is inherently wrong and needs to be rethought. The same can be said of selfishness. Jesus talked often about giving to the poor. The rich are often quite comfortable that the poorest and most vulnerable of society are doing the suffering and not them. This is likely to be why Jesus said that the rich have a problem entering the Kingdom of God. There are many other examples of how our attitudes affect others adversely, and I am not so idealistic to believe that people will change their attitudes any time soon. My point is that we as a people need to be far more careful on how we judge the issue of good and evil. Until we are ready to take our religious views more seriously, we will continue to be guilty of these attitude problems for a long time to come. What does the gnositic do about these problems. Whether you are a literal Christian or a Gnostic Christian, your duty is the same. Do not judge your brother and sister. Instead help him or her to reach their full potential in the secular world and in the Kingdom of God. We are all Children of God, and we are all equal in His eyes. The sooner we recognize this, the sooner the Kingdom of God will actually be realized here on earth.