(March 20, 2014 at 12:35 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: Catholics and Protestants piss me off! You guys are commanded not to judge lest you be judged.The "judge not, lest ye be judged" thing always makes me cringe, because both religious and non-religious use it to mean "do not hold any kind of opinion about others." We 'judge' others in this manner all the time, it's how our minds work. If I act like an obnoxious asshole, why would you hesitate to think "wow, that guy's an obnoxious asshole"? We are wired to rush to judgment, it's a survival skill that doesn't translate terribly well to modern life, but it is what it is.
The context of that verse (Matthew 7:1-6) indicates that he is referring to offering counsel to another person. It is counterproductive, Jesus is saying, to advise someone to a course of action that you are not following. In other words, it's another twist on the futility of "do as I say, not as I do."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
