It Is That Serious

When you judge people that are different from you, you’re killing them.

Yes, it is THAT serious.

You're killing part of them and, any time that happens, it feels (to them) like you're killing all of them.

When you reach conclusions about people; when you don’t engage with them and instead foster your conclusions about them (privately or in the groups you belong to), you are judging them.

When you spend more and more time building a case against people — or, even worse, let other people do it for you — especially people that you’ve never even talked to; you are reaching for conclusions, you are judging them.

IT is that serious.

And, if you need moral authority here, remind yourself of the Scriptures which say “Judge not...lest you be judged”.   Did you read the last part of that (or just the first part)?

If that's true and if judging kills, your very life hangs in this balance, not to mention theirs.

It is that SERIOUS.

When you’ve not been curious enough to talk to actual people that you are judging; when you’re not personally engaging with the systems that you are using to judge those people, then you really are just interested in conclusions (judgment).

...not in curiosity, not in love.

It IS that serious.