RIGHTEOUS ANGER: St. Thomas Aquinas weighs in on being a passive wussy...
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This is different. Aquinas is defining it, not judging someone out of moral superiority. It is our duty to have discernment, to love good and hate evil. Jesus flipped tables and drove the money changers out of the temple with righteous anger.
Thanks you pede. This ^
Your stance is that loving good or hating evil implies we are able to differentiate between the two, which is a stance of moral superiority. Jesus did not say we should never use judgment (discernment), he said don't judge others (i.e. don't be judgmental or a hypocrite). In fact, he commands us to fix our own faults first, which implies knowing the difference between good and evil, so we can see clearly enough to help our brothers.
I think the hang up is the way Aquinas phrased the last sentence "you are immoral as well as unjust." He is not condemning the reader, he is merely saying that it's a natural response of people with morals to get angry when they see injustice. It's more of an approval to have righteous indignation.
Thou shalt not judge isn’t Christian philosophy.
It’s not?
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven
Luke 6:37
Sorry bro, Im judging these pedophile fucks. Fuck off.
Not saying you shouldn’t. Just arguing that “you shouldn’t judge” is generally a Christian concept.
We shouldn't judge the disposition of someone's soul. However some confuse calling someone from sin with judgement. St. James says that correcting a sinner has many spiritual benefits, not only for the sinner, but also for us: James 5:20: let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. And whether we want to admit it or not, we are indeed our brother's keeper: EZEKIEL 3 [18] If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. [19] But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. [20] Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand. But if you on your part warn the wicked man to turn from his [evil] way and he does not turn from his [evil] way, he will die in his sin; but you have saved your life. EZ. 33:9 Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them.
It means not to be a hypocrite. Of course we are to judge another’s actions, and admonish one another. It’s scripture
It absolutely is…
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=judge+not&version=KJV&filter=NT&startnumber=1
“Don’t be a hypocrite.”
You are correct, but many have been conditioned by the dark world to conflate vengeance and justice.
Jesus gave one new commandment and too many find that commandment too great a burden.
Hey, come on. Jesus also said "pluck out your eye". You gonna do that? We're all blind?
The question is to UNDERSTAND through the word, what Truth the Lord is communicating.
In my view, "Judge not, lest thou be not judged" is about the type of heart you have when you encounter the sins of others. See a man committing a sin.... Curse him, or belittle him, without understanding what trials or life or tragic inheritance he has, and you end up scaring your own heart and making it smaller, smaller, smaller.
It's not about observing evil in action, and stepping back to let it do its damage. But that is exactly what Aquinas is talking about here. It's not "judgment" in the heart, but about acting justly before God.