Christians are not commissioned to be judgmental

Many conservative Christians today, particularly in the U.S., have given Christianity a bad name because of their strongly judgmental attitudes, which portrays the image of a Christian as being terribly self-righteous. Judgmentalism portrays the opposite of the unconditional love that God has for Mankind. We as Christians may not agree with people’s beliefs or actions, […]

Be slow to judge – judgment is God’s domain

There are few recorded incidents in the New Testament of Jesus meting out judgment, or castigating people, or condemning them. Most of the recorded occasions when He did so were not directed at the population as a whole, but rather at the religionists of His day (the Pharisees), who were not the example of God’s […]

Why Are So Many Christians Conservative? Part 1

Conservatives believe that the rich and powerful got that way because they deserve to be, that society owes its prosperity to the prosperous, and that government’s job when they have to make choices is to side with those businesspeople who are doing well, because all good things trickle down from them. Progressives, on the other […]