“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:1-5).
Consider the following:"[We] often look at the fact that Muslim females wear burkas and then decry the way Islam treats its women, while at the same time rarely seeing the demand in the United States for Botox, Collagen, and surgical augmentation as glaring testimonies against how we Westerners view our own. We can wonder with great sanctimony how antebellum Southerners could claim to be disciples of Jesus while being owners of slaves, but when a fortune 500 company moves its manufacturing operations to sweatshops in Malaysia so it can pay the workers $.09 an hour without having to worry about labor laws to protect them from oppression, we don't call that 'slave owning,' we call it 'smart business.' We watch World War II documentaries and wonder how the German population could sit back passively as Jews were slaughtered by the train-full, while feeling no guilt over the tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children who have been killed while we liberate Iraq. Though the world and its lusts may take a different form in our country than in those 'heathen lands afar,' they are still alive, well, and largely characteristic even of a free and democratic society such as our own"~ Rev. Jason Stellman
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