judgement

i sat in the crowded manhattan restaurant silently playing the game of who is a tourist and who is a local.

next to me is an older caucasion couple who i guess was in my church going group that day.

“he said, ‘i’m voting for obama because he’s christian.’ and i said, ‘because he’s christian?  he is not a true christian, he is pro-choice and supports homosexuality.’” -mysterious woman whom i happened to be part of a group with.

so now we measure people on how true of a christian they are?  he is not qualified to be president because he respects same gender relationships?  he is not qualified because he knows government should not control a woman’s choice?

what i know from my religion is that God should be the only one making judgements on our final day.  not you.  you call yourself a “true christian” only to leave a beautiful church service full of songs and preaches of praise, and then mercilessly judge some one you don’t even know?

there is a seperation of church and state in our country, the whole country isn’t christian, so you should not dislike a man because he knows that we have a very diverse country.

diverse, ha.  so you are claiming that the people of the prodominantly black and latino church we had just celebrated at are not true christians?  we clapped and praised when announced obama was president.  you’re calling the place you worshipped at not true because we believe and support someone who respects everyones rights?

shame on me for only thinking the Catholic church was like this, this ignorance and narrow mindedness is everywhere.

God, I pray that one day we will all learn to accept one another and realize we are all sinners.  Gossip should be the 8th deadliest sin.