You know what's worst? Judgmental people pretending to not be judgmental as they judge other people.
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You being a webmaster, maybe you can help.
A. Then TOL needs guidelines on how to point out disagreements with other posters without being judgemental.
B. Since having a judgemental, evaluating mind goes along with being human, this might require some thought, creativity and imagination on TOL's part.
C. During the last 15 years, there have been more than a dozen factual accounts that have come to light showing that some American Right Wing Christian groups and individuals have actually tried to get the word "imagine" banned from schoolbooks (apparently, only
witches imagine).
D. And since the concepts of creativity and imagination go hand-in-hand, then there are a number of problems that arise:
1. Creativity and imagination are the only way humans have when it comes to
encountering and understanding qualities such as love and empathy.
2. Merely giving someone literal definitions of these qualities will be ineffective.
3. A final problem is that fundamentalist approaches to the sacred literature of
any religion legitimize literalism and thus make religious life a matter of
being required to assent to a list of beliefs, rather than to live out an
effective and ethical way of life.
E. Two final points then arise:
1. Rock
2. Hard place.
