“…..the Catholic community has had four or five decades of indoctrination presenting JUDGEMENTALISM as the only vice, and TOLERANCE as the only virtue.”
Thus the error is to omit doing what we are commanded also by Christ Himself to do: judge actions, speech, writing against truth, so that we can help others by offering truth. We fail when we omit these realities, when we evade these truths.
Thus:
"Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly." (Jn 7:24).
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them" (Mt 7:15, 16).
"Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits you will know them." (Mt 7:19-20).
As St Paul teaches:
"Test everything: retain what is good." (1Thess 5:21).
"I, for my part, although absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as if present, pronounced judgement on the one who has committed this deed..." (1 Cor 5:3; read 1-13).
"I am speaking as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I am saying." (1 Cor 10:15).
"Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world." (1 Jn 4:1).
Similarly: "I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth." (Rev 3:16).
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: . . . but will they?
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: The answer, of course, is NO. Except in a
: very few parishes, the Catholic community
: has had four or five decades of
: indoctrination presenting JUDGEMENTALISM as
: the only vice, and TOLERANCE as the only
: virtue.
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: True Catholicism, far from discouraging us
: to exercise our judgment, actually requires
: that we do so, NOT in regard to the motives
: of other people, but certainly in regard to
: their beliefs, their statements and their
: actions. The only one whose motivation we
: are allowed to judge is ourself, but making
: a judgment on the actions and beliefs of
: others, in the light of a properly formed
: conscience, is a requirement for living the
: Faith. The immoral or heretical ideas and
: actions of others should not be imitated,
: but to know what to imitate, and what not,
: one must make properly informed judgments.
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: Specifically in regard to Islam, so very
: many people are going to allow the lies of
: political correctness to cause them to
: suspend judgment, until, when it is too late
: to do anything else, they are forced to
: acknowledge the truth.
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