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Originally Posted by LPIDelta
I certainly don't want to derail . . . . What is Christian about discrimination? I thought God is the only judge?
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Oh, I think that the derailment from the OP happened a long time ago.
I think there's a real (and very scriptural) tension here. Discrimination and judgment
can be very Christian. Yes, we are told to "judge not, lest ye be judged" -- this seems to have more to do with people saying "you are damned . . . " when damnation is not our call -- and not to harp on the mote in a brother or sister's eye while ignoring the log in our own.
But the NT is also full of warnings for believers not to have dealings with idolotors or immoral people (with descriptions, in some cases, of what kind of behavior can constitute immorality) and not to allow them fellowship in the church. Kind of hard to heed those warnings without some discriminating judgment.
Would, for example, you make the same claim that it is not Christian to judge or discriminate if the object of the judgment or discrimination was, say, a member of NMBLA, a porn trafficker or a white supremicist?
I am not in a GLO that claims a particularly Christian identity or heritage, so I'll leave it to others to say how this tension translates into such a GLO or other non-church organization. But I think the idea that "it's not Christian to discriminate," while it sounds warm and fuzzy, is really rather simplistic.