The_Fire:
Matthew 7:1 through 7:6
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Thanks, huntsman, that was the verse I was looking for.
IN other words, it's not a command to "not judge", but a warning that you will be judged yourself as you judge others.
Thus, if you are dismissive of others beliefs and feelings, and comdemn others out of hand, and act as if no one who thinks exactly like you do is worthy, then you'll be judged by the same standard.
If you condemn others to eternal punishment on the basis of, for example, a single comment made on an Internet chat board, then prepare to, yourself, be condemned eternally for each and every thing you've done wrong.
[Childish voice]
oh-oh. SOMEONE in this thread are in trouble with his deityyy....
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Of course, seeing as how you're a witch, I figure you are already familiar with this principle (threefold rule, isn't it?).
Yup. In Wicca. I practice a rather eclectic way of paganism though (number of practioners: 1
), but I did look into that particular path for a while. Never got around to being formally initiated, but the Wiccan Rede does center arround the idea of Karma.
1 kick in the rear of a fundie= 3 kick in the rears to you.
Fortunately the more experienced Wiccans, I know a few and whom are not all witches to make a point clear, tends to see it this way; If kicking the fundie in the butt prevents a bigger disaster like said fundie lighting a stake with someone tied to it, then it's ok as the small "bad" karma is outweighed by the larger responsibility of preventing a bigger "Bad Karma" by ignoring it.
There are those off cause, most of them teens reading a certain Silver RavenWolf, whom are going to extremes. They also tend to believe that Uncle Gerry (Gerald B Gardner to the booknerds) actually described a more than 30.000 year old religion and not something he pulled out of his ass with a rather large source of inspiration from Aleister Crowley.
Please don't take those idiots seriously. There are, after all, morons within every religion. Unfortunately those morons are destroying a LOT for the rest of us.
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Wiccan Rede including the three fold law. Same side also have the Witches Creed (which I don't follow either), btw. They also used to have a rather nice article on the board about the history of Wicca, but it seems to be gone... )
I think more of it as a Action-Reaction thing: I kick a fundie in the but, I probably get arrested or the fundie hits me in the nogging with a bible
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And if the fundie have someone tied to a stake, then the legal ramifications of NOT kicking him in the butt are worse than a minor charge for violence.....
SOMONE in this thread, however, hasn't been keeping up with thier religion.
Gee, I wonder whom you could be refering to....
Takker.