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Judging by not judging

 
Carl Laferton | Feb. 16, 2011

Great quote in Tim Keller's new book, King's Cross, on the judgmentalism of not judging:

"The self-discovery person says 'The progressive, open-minded people are in and the judgmental bigots are out—and of course we're the open-minded ones.'

"In Western cosmopolitan culture there's an enormous amount of self-righteousness about self-righteousness. We progressive urbanites are so much better than people who think they're better than other people. We disdain those religious, moralistic types who look down on others…

"[This attitude] leads to as much superiority and self-righteousness as religion does."

Carl Laferton

Carl is Publisher and Co-CEO at The Good Book Company and is a member of Life Church Hackbridge in south London. He is the bestselling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as Series Editor of the God's Word For You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.