Logic and rational consistency do not seem to be necessary in times like these. No one has the right to judge me!” Never mind that the very ones who are telling us not to judge are enacting a moral law in their very act of banishing moral law they are making a judgment in the very act of forbidding judgment. “The mean, hateful, judgmental Church has been tamed. “Yes!” a jubilant but jaded world acclaimed. For a sinful, slothful world to hear a clergyman say, “Who am I to judge” was a cathartic victory.
Although the remark was taken out of context (he was speaking of a person with sinful and disordered tendencies who was living uprightly nonetheless), the world didn’t care. A few years ago a certain famous Catholic posed the following rhetorical question: “Who am I to judge?” It was a question heard ’round the world.
