Outside Christian circles Mat 7:1, “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” may well be the most well known verse in the Bible. It is stuck on billboards, quoted in courtrooms, recited by politicians, and muttered by drunks seeking to appease their guilt wracked minds. It is held as a trump card that will defuse the most pointed of sermons. “Who is he to tell me how to live, after doesn’t his Bible say, “Judge not that you be not judged.” So on we move careening towards a moral precipice that is expressed in “The Atheist Creed” by Steve Turner

The Atheists Creed

We believe in Marx Freud and Darwin.
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone,
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your definition of knowledge.

We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that all religions are basically the same,
at least the ones that we read were.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of
creation, sin, heaven hell God and salvation.

We believe in Masters and Johnson.
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.
We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.

We believe that each man must
find the truth that is right for him
and reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust. History will alter.

We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth that there is no absolute truth.
We believe in the rejection of creeds.
And the flowering of individual thought.

In other words we do not judge. Where does this leave the Christian? Obviously we must pass judgment on many of these ideas, and we must acknowledge and proclaim that even our loving heavenly Father has condemn them. And there lies the key to escaping the moral and mental suicide of trying to live without absolutes and yet fulfilling the Lord’s commands not to judge. Is it not that Christ is exhorting us as his followers not to write people off; do not pass ultimate judgment on people and condemn them. But we must ruthlessly hone our minds to pick up on every lie of our enemy and expose it for what it is; bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Is this not what we want for our young people. Is this not what Paul was urging when he persistently tells Christians to judge:

1Co 10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

1Co 11:13 Judge in yourselves

1Co 14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things.

May God grant us dexterity that with equal heat we may love people with the forgiveness and grace of God, while we ruthlessly condemn every idea that raise itself against the knowledge of Christ.