JUDGMENTAL CALL

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~ Mother Theresa


I have to admit I have been extremely judgmental lately. Not in the sense of I am better than you because I keep the commandments with more precision and accuracy, but in the sense of you are self-righteous and I don't like you. I judge the judgmental, but isn't that the same thing? I suppose I am judging the self aptitude of what each individual Mormon deems important to obtain celestial glory. But it's all judgment and quite frankly I can judge with the best of them.
In-active Mormons judge the pompous Mormons who they think sit around and gag at their weak drive to be valiant. Some grandiose Mormons cringe at the casualness of some LDS folks and actually think that a persons salvation is tied to their caffeine consumption. Self-righteous Mormons judge the half-baked Mormons who go to church but show up 10 to 15 minutes late and might even take the sacrament with OMG, their left hand. They are called back row Mormons or Jack Mormons and are clearly not leadership material and surely you can't trust them to organize a ward activity that will be completely brag worthy. Categorically speaking, Mormons are judgmental and I feel the need at times, to judge the judging.
Is watching to occasional R rated movie really the slippery slope to more grievous sins and future drug and porn addiction? Or is it a matter of obedience that we follow the trivial and completely ridiculous interpretations of what is required to enter into God's glory? I once had a visiting teacher scold me for not attending a Women's Conference as directed by the Stake President. Really? Am I kicked out of the top kingdom for such frivolity? I told her literally to come down and visit me in the Telestial kingdom sometime when she has a chance for she is much better than I. Her harsh judgment is what I judge. It is nonsense to attach my heavenly reward to such trivial matters. And so I judge with harshness the judgment of the haughty and Pharisee type Mormons who attach our salvation to their own perfection and not Christs atonement. I need the atonement and for all of the meetings I skip and callings I say no to, I presume He will make up the difference. After all I can do does not mean creating silly requirements equivalent to the doctrine of leaving the lights on so you don't have to work by flipping a switch on the Shabbat. And yet, we must watch closely lest we slip into disbelief. But for me go ahead and judge, because you better believe I am judging you....harshly.
Women judge women the harshest of all. We take one look at another woman and make a complete assessment up and down about her. She dresses like crap, she hasn't lost her baby weight yet, her husband is a dork and doesn't make very much money, she would look better if she wore her hair this way....and on and on and on. It's all true. Women are petty. We are the judges and the jury's of not only our spiritual selves, but also a woman's ability to have one foot in the tall and spacious building while playing the good Mormon part. The admonition is not "judge not" the admonition is to judge righteously and yet how can we know what is truly in a another woman's heart? So we are all in the same judgment boat of sinking criteria. In the end the things we judge about each other from number of children to homemade meals really do not matter. Feel free to assess my so called pathetic Mormon attempt at obedience, I really don't care. That female emotion left me a long time ago. My guilt monitor is virtually non-existent. I don't have time nor the desire to impress anyone....I can only be me. I can only be a Mormon like I am a Mormon, or I won't be one. Take it or leave it and leave the kingdom assigning to Him who is perfect for He looks on a persons heart and not whether they pay their tithing on the net or the gross. Thanks.

Monica Lewinsky

Seriously, if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me...