7 posts tagged “judge”

As a society, we value education.   Enough so that we have made education available to everybody completely apart from financial costs.  I believe this has resulted in a devaluation of education among the recipients.  Had schools been a privelege to me and my generation rather than a given, we would have taken the opportunities we were afforded much more seriously.  As it was, I felt I was being force fed.  My parents disaggreed, largely because they did not get complete education.  The more I learn about the application of agenda into our educational programs, the more I believe we are being force fed misinformation.  This is one of the myriad reasons I advocate vouchers or school choice.  If this school is doing a lousy job, I get to choose a better school just like I get to choose a better hamburger joint or auto mechanic.

I am a religious man but I have avoided arguing politics and judgment from a religious perspective simply because of the current bias against Christianity in the Western cultures.  On this topic, I believe this is not possible because there simply is no better source for wisdom than faith in God.  There is only one path to wisdom.  There is only one path to understanding the benefits and consequences of world views.  The rest are condemned to continuously circling around false assumptions because; all men reason in a circle, or begin by assumptions. Their knowledge and wisdom depend on their assumptions. The God-rejecter begins by assuming his ideas and those of the fools before him are intelligent and rational. He begins by assuming he has made great advances in the twenty years since he was in diapers. The righteous man begins by assuming faith in an infinitely wise God, Who has revealed truth and wisdom in Scripture. He begins by thinking he knows nothing at all and needs the help of Another. 

The other you choose should be based on their fruit.  I'll come back to this thought in a moment but I wanted to point out the carnal mind and its motivation.  The reason the carnal person tears down the reputation of the good and builds up or covers up the reputation of the evil is they are biased by their desires for their own particular brand of evil and align with other brands of evil to overcome the majority's good judgment to protect their access to their favored brand of evil.  Ergo, the Liberal elite college professor who denies the existence of God aligns with the Hezbollah terrorist who targets and kills innocents in the name of Allah.  Its insane and the professor denies it, but his deeds reveal him.  His fruit is supportive of Hezbollah and destructive to his own country and ideology.  Carried out to its logical conclusion, his course would end in submission to Islam and Allah as described in the Qu'ran.

Back to the fruit of faith.  If the fruit of belief in God is the Taliban, Hezbollah, Fatah, and the hundreds of other mainstream organizations which openly and proudly present their blood lust and domineering control of the population as the will of Allah, you might want to consider the consequence to you personally and those you love if their ideology is employed everywhere.  If the fruit of faith is an environment which welcomes other ideologies and fights for equal opportunity for all, even for countries other than its own, then you might want to consider the Source of such an ideology.  Perhaps someone can recall a civilization and ideology which welcomes other cultures to enter their arena of ideas, not just for purposes of debate, but always looking for the better to employ in their own society, but I can't recall one.  Perhaps someone can recall a society in history which bleeds for other cultures without expectation of payment or profit, but I can't recall one.  Certainly, it isn't Islam.  Islam has been imperialist, expansionist, and violently militant from its inception and continues to be today in 44 nations around the world so they can bless the people with 'morality' by chopping off the heads of anyone who refuses to submit to their authority.  Pardon me, but that isn't religion, that is a theopolitical movement to advance a government and the power of its leaders.  Come to think of it, wasn't it the U.S. (a predominantly Christian culture) which went to war in Bosnia to protect Muslims from the Christians engaging in ethnic cleansing?

As for the faith of non-faith, what is its fruit in recent history?  Nazism, Communism, Maouist, Taoist, etc., have all been the sources of the greatest bloodletting in history, even more than all three major religions combined.  All of them stem from the Marxist ideology of eliminating faith in God.  More than 100 million lives lost in the last century alone.  The thing that sets Christianity apart from all the rest is its self correcting nature.  It was the Christian which drove the anti-slave movement.  It was the Christian which corrected the witch trials and the inquisition.  You name the ill in Christianity from history and just know that it was Christians which corrected the wrongs.  Not only that, but in the last century it was predominantly the Christian cultures which corrected the ills of the anti-God regimes of Nazism, Communism, Taoists and eventually pressured the Maouists to some degree of morality and value for human life and self will.  This continues even today and it is predominantly the Christian culture which is exerting some control on the bloodlust of the Islamists.

Let God be true.

This is a crucial proverb, for the rest are wasted without fearing the LORD. Solomon put it first! The basic foundation for learning is to fear God (9:10); but fools reject wisdom and instruction, for they are proud and selfish without regard for God. They love their own opinions (26:12). Rather than search for truth, fools simply want to promote their own thoughts (18:1-2). But you cannot even start learning without the true fear of God.

Who is the LORD? He is Jehovah of the Bible, the great I AM THAT I AM (Ex 3:14; 6:3). He created the heavens, earth, seas, and everything in them in six twenty-four hour days. When He came as a man 2000 years ago, He was named Jesus (Is 7:14; 9:6; Matt 1:21-23; John 1:1,14). Jesus Christ is Jehovah! And He is coming soon with His mighty angels in flaming fire to destroy His enemies (II Thess 1:7-11; I Tim 6:13-16).

The fear of God is an affectionate reverence for Him and humble submission to His word. Fearing God is loving His commandments and hating evil (8:13; 16:6; Ps 111:10; 112:1). Fearing God recognizes Him as the First Cause and Last End of all things (16:4; Rev 4:11)! It knows His forgiveness and seeks to please Him (Ps 130:3-4). A man fearing God trembles humbly at His word (Is 66:2). It is the whole duty of man (Eccl 12:13-14).

Natural men, who do not fear God, are fools (Ps 14:1; 36:1; 58:1). Their reasoning processes are perverse, for they reason in a circle from their own conceited ideas (Rom 1:20-23; I Tim 6:3-5,20-21). Spiritual men, who do fear God, are wise and reasonable, because their thoughts begin with faith in a Creator God (II Thess 3:2; Heb 11:3,6). The fool begins his thinking with thoughts of other fools, the believer with the words of God!

All men reason in a circle, or begin by assumptions. Their knowledge and wisdom depend on their assumptions. The God-rejecter begins by assuming his ideas and those of the fools before him are intelligent and rational. He begins by assuming he has made great advances in the twenty years since he was in diapers. The righteous man begins by assuming faith in an infinitely wise God, Who has revealed truth and wisdom in Scripture. He begins by thinking he knows nothing at all and needs the help of Another.

The fool cannot prove his theories. He calls hallucinations like evolution to be science, but he has never observed evolution, duplicated it in a laboratory, or adequately defined it. He is a fool! And his so-called science is merely a fable (I Tim 6:20-21). The believer knows the Bible is absolutely true internally and externally: but he cannot and will not prove it to the fool, because the fool is missing the essential factor - faith (II Thes 3:1-2).

Consider faith closely. The fool has faith - belief and trust - in himself and his other fellow fools. It takes more faith to believe man came from chaotic gases and baboons than it does to believe man came from an intelligent Creator. The fool has faith, but it is faith in man's hallucinations! The fool has faith in lies, which is self-deception! The believer has faith in God and His word (Heb 11:1-6), which is self-instruction (15:33)!

How did man originate? The fool says a big bang of chaotic gases formed order, design, beauty, life, and the ability and laws to reproduce and preserve them. The man who fears God knows the fool is a fool, because only an idiot could imagine such nonsense, and only the insane would say it! As a humble child trusting God, he cries, "The Emperor has no clothes!" He knows God made man from dust and breathed into him the breath of life.

Evolution is the result of God-hating and sin-loving minds given over to the devil, and it is God Himself Who blinds these fools to worship baboons as their ancestors (Is 44:9-20; Rom 1:20-23). Their "think tanks" today are to smoke hallucinogenic substances and see who can win the day by coming up with the most outlandish explanation for a thing! Do you doubt this accusation? How do you think they say the big bang was 14 billion years ago? They do not even know what men were doing on earth 4 thousand years ago!

The blessed God blinds men who are not thankful to Him for what they are and have (Rom 1:20-23). When they give more glory to the creature than to the Creator, He gives them over to a reprobate mind to do very inconvenient things like sodomy, abortion, child rebellion, rap, bestiality, Picasso, and same-sex marriages (Rom 1:24-32). Jehovah, the LORD, has committed Himself to destroy such men (I Cor 1:19-20; 3:19-20).

How did the seven-day week originate? Did Neanderthal man decide he was tired after working six days and needed the seventh for rest? The movements of the sun give us seasons and years and days, and the moon gives us months, just as God declared (Gen 1:14-19). Where did the week originate? By God's revelation (Gen 2:1-3; Ex 20:8-11)!

How did morality originate? Is adultery wrong? If not, why is polygamy wrong? If not, why is prostitution wrong? If not, why is pornography wrong? If not, why is bestiality wrong? If not, why is pedophilia wrong? How do you reason, fool? Did the caveman of your theories want to protect the woman and give her a loving and secure life in a monogamous relationship of two adults? Or did the blessed God ordain marriage?

Consider how an evolutionist reasons. He laughs at sexual abstinence and virginity, while pulling very small infants apart limb by limb with a suction abortion. He sues farmers for housing chickens in safe cages with constant food, water, and vitamins; but he viciously defends the so-called right to rip an unborn child to pieces! And they call this knowledge!

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about religion! If it were not for God and His Bible, men would still be sacrificing their wives and children in fire to make peace with their idols, as is still done in India today! They would still be cutting and painting themselves to make peace with the Great Spirit and go to the Happy Hunting Ground.

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about government! If it were not for God and His Bible, men would still worship their emperor as god, like the Egyptians of old and the Japanese of yesterday. Benevolent government was ordained in the Bible, and it is only widely enjoyed in nations that have been havens for Bible preaching. In all other nations, the peasants are used to satisfy the appetite for luxury of the ruler.

Fearing God is the beginning of knowledge ... about history! Most historians today write history to further a social agenda, and those that write honestly have little data anyway. As foolish man discovers that the Bible accounts of ancient civilizations are true, the same men outlaw the Bible in schools, lest the children have truth at their disposal. Consider the recent discovery of the Hittites that the Bible had described for 3,000 years.

The Bible has all the answers from the origin of the universe to what to do with your foolish child, from the origin of death to the cure for it, from perfect rules for marriage to the eternal state of the wicked. Fearing God means that you believe and trust His word, which gives you insight and answers for all the questions of life, while the evolutionist fool can only speculate about new ideas on the age of the big bang.

Fearing God means you do not fear man, which brings pressure to compromise (29:25; Jer 1:8,17). Peer pressure of elementary school students or academicians in your professional field cause men to accept traditional ideas or politically correct theories. It is time for the child to cry again, "But the Emperor has no clothes!" The fear of God saves a man from this bondage, for such a man despises all human opinions (Ps 119:98-100,128).

Where does wisdom originate? In the fear of the Lord! God opens men's eyes, ears, and hearts to truth and wisdom (I Kgs 3:5-15; Jas 1:5). God opens their eyes to His word (Ps 119:18). God shows them His secrets (3:32; Ps 25:14). And they fear no man (Heb 13:6). Wisdom cannot be found anywhere in the universe, but in the fear of God (Job 28:12-28)!

I thought I should let you know that I have a new project in the works.  I've just started a new site over at http://judgeright.wordpress.com
You can see some of my older work at http://judgeright.blogspot.com which has been essentially abandoned and of course, this VOX site is the one I've been most active on lately.  If this project works, I hope to have started a small, knowledgeable community of nine justices to discuss current events in the news.  A self appointed think tank to judge ideologies or worldview, if you will, based on morality and historical consequences of policies.  Have a look.   

I've been featured on VOX's front page with an article entitled "The World does NOT Hate America" and I've had another article reach nearly a thousand hits in a single day called, "Liberals Redefining Hate"  This to say that I am capable of drawing an audience and want to use some of your posts/articles as arguments or briefs.  I do ask that we keep the language clean and respectful to make knowledge acceptable.  Other than that you don't have to do anything different than what you're doing now.  If you make the pool, I will simply cross post the relevant articles with links back to the jurors' sites.  The alternative is to give jurors authority to author directly to the JudgRight blog albeit, limited to the pages section rather than the front page.  As the votes come in, the most effective articles are posted on the front page as majority and dissenting briefs.  Current jurors are samples of how your blogs are to be featured.

Issues are raised in articles written by Dennis Prager, Michelle Malkin and others (conservatives) and Howard Zenn and others (liberals) as though presenting their cases from opposite sides on the same issues.  The jurors then submit their opinions and vote for the best of the pool for majority opinion and dissenting opinion, building an archive of verdicts.  Comments open to anyone with limited moderation to keep them clear of spam and abuse.  The general purpose being, we encourage people to be informed and think through major issues of our times and in order to do that, generate traffic to our varied websites.

UPDATE:

[I have put the same information on my StumbleUpon page to widen my search for jurors.  Feel free to spread the word.  I am collecting applications for the moment and we’ll see how many want to jump in.  If there are very many, I may set up ‘lower’ courts with 5 and 3 members in keeping with circuits and whatever is beneath the circuit courts.  Everyone is eligible until further notice.]

END UPDATE

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We vote on which issues to take up, so I am looking for a group with like interests (politics, religion, strong opinions, and odd behaviors) and varied backgrounds to provide a wide array of perspectives to draw from.

On Friday, I saw a video of popular court TV Judge Judy making clear to a thug where she stands on private citizens and personal weapons.  It is a rare bit of wisdom expressed from the bench, even a TV bench which bears no impact in the real courts.  Judge Judy has been and still holds accreditation through the BAR association, but the TV courtroom is a show and as such, the participants sign documents before entering this court which holds them to a binding contract of the Judge's judgments.  It is a great representation of why the Supreme Court did the right thing upholding citizens' right to keep and bear arms as laid out in the Constitution.

Charles Barkley, Madonna, and innumerous other pop culture icons are purposefully and in some cases ignorantly misquoting Jesus to Christians.  Its not exactly a misquote, but it is definitely taking his instruction out of context.  This verse makes it clearer.

John 7:24 "Do not judge according to appearance , but judge with righteous judgment ."

Here is a video of a pastor saying it much better than I can.  Here's to defeating this ignorance.

Yesterday, I heard Charles Barkley slamming Christianity for judging people, calling it hypocrisy.  He (Barkley) judged all of Christendom hypocrites for judging others.  The lack of depth, the vacuousness of his thought processes are not unique.  This is fast becoming the populist position within the very culture that is derived from Christianity.  What has Western culture become? 

If Christians are hypocrites for judging others, what does that make those who judge Christians and condemn them for judging?  I do not condemn anyone for judging me, in fact I encourage it.  However, I must condemn anyone who judges me on the basis of prejudice.  Prejudice is a pre-judgment and in this case, a pre-judgment (prejudice) based on my faith, an irrational fear of Christians and it is called Christophobia. 

Judgment based on understanding, facts, behavior, values, and morals is absolutely necessary to our survival.  You cannot succeed in any relationship without using your judgment.  Everybody uses judgment to choose their friends, their spouses, their advisors, their suppliers, their customers, business partners.......everyone is judged daily.  What's more, since no one is perfect, we have to use our judgment within each relationship with every contact, every exchange of information must be evaluated for relevance and accuracy.  Even my pastor, whom I respect and adore and lean on for guidance has weaknesses and holes in his knowledge and is therefore capable of steering me wrong, not because of evil intent necessarily, though he struggles with certain temptations just like I do, but lack of knowledge.  So I evaluate what my mentor has to say maybe even more carefully than what my doctor has to say.  Most assuredly, I evaluate what my doctor has to say since my life may literally depend on it.

I have heard more often than most Christians prejudices like Barkley's because I have tried to reach young people with some good old fashioned common sense.  When I have been on Yahoo's Answers and in chat rooms and when I speak to the youth in person, I am often condemned for judging others for giving common sense advice.  These young people have been taught this prejudice in our educational institutions.  From grade school through college this anti-Christian attitude is rampant among the staff and the kids pick it up directly or indirectly, through lessons or by observing their teachers.  Now with the legal requirements to remove God from schools, these prejudices are being reinforced by our courts and by the highest authority in the land.  This schizophrenia fracturing the character of our nation and its culture is what is weakening our resolve to define and fight evil within our own culture as well as the external threats to our very existence. 

Some examples of what I've been condemned for include, choosing what kind of person to date, what kind of person to be, what kind of person to follow, what kind of person to do business with.  Anytime we Christians are attacked (verbally) on the basis of this prejudice, Christians should respond with a counter attack (verbally) on their prejudice and hypocrisy.  Stand for what you believe in and stand for your reputation loudly and immediately.  Expose the ignorance of your attacker so that all who hear will know their prejudice and shallowness of thought.  Let it be a shame to them.  Do not allow an unreasonable fear based on prejudice to condemn you for following the Scriptures.  Certainly, do not allow a non-believer to mis-quote Jesus or to take His word out of context to condemn you.

The bigger problem is when the non-believer equates Christianity with Islam.  Every week we hear of another act of terror perpetrated on Christians and Jews.  In Chad and the Sudan the Islamic government and those it supports are ethnically cleansing the entire country.  They are killing everyone who does not believe in their particular branch of Islam, so Christians, Jews, and Muslims are dyeing by their torturous methods.  In Saudi Arabia and Iran and numerous other countries dominated by Islam, people are literally executed for leaving Islam.  Where in the Christian dominated governments around the world can you claim anybody is executed for leaving Christianity?  There are none.  Yet, pop culture here in this nation, give Christianity, Islam, and all religions the same level of credence.  We Christians make statements against lewd behavior, debauchery and defend values that have stood the test of thousands of years, but in Arabia and Persia they don't just speak out against this behavior, they take deadly steps to stop it.  If you are a non-Muslim there and are caught in a sexual encounter with a Muslim woman, you will be executed.  If you are caught in a homosexual act whether you are Muslim or not, you will be executed.  If you try to teach a Muslim about your faith, any faith other than Islam, you will be executed.

Ok, so maybe most people are unaware of these distinctions.  What about the way they conduct war?  We see on the nightly news that Muslims target their own innocent civilians in order to disrupt the economy in Iraq to keep the region from trusting the stability the American forces are bringing to them.  Muslims use their youth to blow themselves up in crowded shops in Israel.  They target innocent civilians in other countries.  They keep children around their leaders so that if they are located and attacked the children will be killed in the process, then our media play their story in our homes so that the enemy is aided by our media to make us look as bad as they are because their children were killed.  Their moderates do not speak out against their extremists' obvious evil ways to protect the reputation of their own faith.  Their is no comparison, but they are given equal status with the vastly more honorable by our own colleges, media, courts, and to some degree, even our president.  (Religion of peace) In fact many of the Muslims who fully support these extremists have been employed as professors in our colleges.  The peaceniks and the blame America types have no excuse for equating murderers and terrorists with those of us who try and occasionally fail to hold the standard, who try to convey that standard to others, who do not force our faith on others, but offer information to be evaluated for its truthfulness and who fight to make freedom available to all people.  We do have real reason to fear the advancement of Islam for the things I've listed above and much more.

Charles Barkley is ignorant.  No surprise, this.  What is surprising is that we hear the same rhetoric coming from our youth, our media, and our courts.  That is why we need to be ready to answer prejudicial attacks.  That is why we need to judge right.

Have you ever had a premonition about something that came true? 
Submitted by Sheri.

No.  I really wanted to know that experience, but I have had dreams that repeated for years and then came to mean something I believe to be messages from God.  Usually long and involved, it would be difficult to explain what they were and how they were relevant to my life and purpose.  They have proved invaluable for directing the course of my life to work toward the good of society.  This is one of the main reasons I blog.  Its an effort to give direction to anyone who'll listen...'er read what an old man has to contribute to the welfare of our culture.

In that vein, I'd like to explain why I chose the name for my blog that you see above.  Judging has been condemned among the youth and pop culture of our society.  These are people who do not think very deeply.  If they would bother to scratch the surface of this thought theme, they'd begin to understand how ridiculous the statement, "You shouldn't judge people." really is.  You shouldn't choose your friends?  You shouldn't choose your country's leader?  You shouldn't choose which religion to believe in or which leader in that religion to follow?  You shouldn't choose where to work or what kind of work you should do?  You shouldn't choose who or where you get your education from?  Get real!  Yet, when I used to spend hours in Yahoo Answers, I would be judged and condemned for expressing my opinion of certain askers and especially, answerers.  I say again, they would condemn me for judging others.

We literally, could not survive if we didn't use our common sense, and judgment is part of this mental utility.  When they quote Jesus to me, a Christian, to defend their stance on judgment, I am forced to go into a long, detailed explanation of the use of words, interpretation of languages, and the mis-application by several generations the latest of which is this pop culture.  Perhaps a better word the interpreters should have used would be 'condemn' but until now the depth of thought was good enough to recognize the proper application in most people.  So, I am waging war on the shallow thought.  I invite you to judge whether this message and this messenger is worth hearing....'er, reading.