Every human being is a juror¹ throughout his entire life. If he wasn’t, then he wouldn’t be able to make decisions about how to relate with other people. This is why it is constructive to have labels and categories. ’Mentally organizing’ becomes abused when one does it for his own benefit to excuse himself from caring about those who he cannot understand. People might think someone doesn’t care about them, if the ‘juror’ decides to cease from becoming further acquainted. Usually that is true, but it’s also equally true that one may be continuing to care about the person he no longer associates with. If the shunned person tries to judge what’s in the other person’s heart, he is trying to play god. Only God knows the motive, but most people will not accept this lack of control over knowing the truth. They can’t do so when God doesn’t have His rightful place in their life. They want to be accepted by mankind rather than resting in peace knowing that they are accepted by God.
Some degree of understanding typically exists when caring about others. The problem though is that understanding usually doesn’t happen automatically. When it does, it’s most likely because of sharing the same characteristics (e.g., neurotypical, asperger, autistic, alcoholic, nationality, elderly, materialistic, similar upbringing, shared faith, etc.). But then there are other characteristics that further divide the way the common ones might create an outcome (e.g., increased pride→ often rationalized as becoming a ’stronger’ person, being humbled→ thereby increasing meekness, turning bitter→ due to one’s perception of priorities in life, etc.).
Problems happen when people are not content with simply making judgments and carry it to the next step by wanting to also be the judge. Only the judge is authorized to decide the sentence (the only trustworthy judge of mankind is the one who created man). Judgments (acting as a juror, figuratively speaking) are not what has a person acting like god. Assuming the role of judge is what makes one their own god. This is what self-righteous people do. Either a person trusts God and His Word or they must trust their own relative concepts of what’s right versus wrong.
Readers of this blog can make judgments of me being aspergers rather than neurotypical, Christian rather than an unbeliever, conservative rather than liberal, Finn-American rather than another ancestry, aged rather than a child, etc. I can read other blogs and make my own judgments of those authors too. That’s okay, but when people act like god and believe it’s their duty to judge another person, then the outcome of rationalization begins.
Rationalizing is destructive when one condemns another for being different. Condemning and having an opinion are not the same thing. For example, I am (and will always be) of the option to call same-sex behavior a sin.² A sin will always remain sinful and absolute (unchanging). Sexual immorality is relative and constantly changing. The younger a person is, the less he can realize this. Fornication is a sin, along with adultery, prostitution, and pornography. Such terms are as concrete as day and night. All throughout time, day meant day and night meant night. How many people stop to think deeply about why this is?
My option of the view behind why certain things are left alone and accepted versus other things being controversial has to do with the characteristics that make up an individual. The most vital characteristics are also the most hidden. No one has the ability to know another person. This inability to know even extends into one’s own self. Not too often are confessions heard about this, but they do happen sometimes. For example, during National Geographic’s episodes of Locked Up Abroad, often times the young women in those stories are shocked to discover how easily they deceived themselves into believing a lie simply because they wanted something. It’s easy for others to misjudge themselves by believing they’re not foolish like those who make such mistakes.
That same ease to deceive one’s own self is the culprit behind divisions that eventually lead to murder and war. World peace, harmony, unity, etc. is IMPOSSIBLE. Why don’t the people, who protest every war, look at their own bumper sticker laden cars and see that same spirit of war as those who support troops? The true peacemakers are quietly praying for others instead of aggressively seeking to trespass upon opposing viewpoints. Free speech per se is not what’s violent. Violence occurs when seeking to silence the ‘repulsive’ side. During election time, it’s typically the protestors for peace who try to take away the signs put up by those with opposing politics.
The more ungodly a society becomes, the more intolerant its members will be towards those who are different.³ Satan has done a masterful craft of deception to twist this around, thereby causing people to believe the opposite. People think because same-sex behavior is tolerated, diverse cultures are taught to be embraced (except for Christianity), and the use of the word ’sin’ becoming exterminated from public use, that this is evidence that mankind is evolving towards world peace.
True peace (for now) can only exist within one’s own soul and that’s impossible without salvation from the greatest enemy→ one’s own sinfulness.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” — Romans 3:23
¹In this case, instead of a person taking an oath of allegiance to the law of the land, one remains loyal to his own acceptable legal system. Unfortunately, most people (usually those who are more materially ‘blessed’) abide by the Hypocritical Rule of, “Don’t treat others the way you want others to treat you.”
²I’m exercising my first amendment rights. This may tempt some bigots (prejudiced people who are intolerant of any opinions differing from their own) to make libelous links to my blog. They might support neurodiversity; however, you’ll be able to detect their intolerance towards those with a different faith and/or political view by how blind they are to their own hypocrisy.
³This is not a pure statement. It’s generalizing. Tolerance has increased in some areas, but overall it has not. Intolerance today is more covert and subtle than in the past.
