Same, I had a moment where a guy in school was roasting "those damn Jews" with legit criticism, and I said "Be careful man that's God's people." He was bewildered, it stuck with me and when I heard a preacher say all the things in the world "Jews" supposedly invented and things like Hollywood were included and he'd say "now it doesn't matter what you think" I was like...actually pretty sure it does if we are supposed to judge one another and keep ourselves in check. As it's better for the least esteemed amongst you to judge than not. If im grafted in, then im grafted in the family where God chastens His own, thus we judge one another to keep us from His chastizement to be better conformed to the image in the flesh. Just a matter of not judging someone in an area you are also failing in, and trying for good rather than just condemnation.

That's when I realized how these jokers got us with the 'apple of God's eye' that we are by the same saving faith in Christ believers had in God in general seeing through a glass darkly, without the very image of the thing, Christ. Now that He has been revealed, the mechanism by which NO MAN shall enter heaven without, if you are without, good luck. You'll be judged by your merits we all fall short of.