“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”

It reminds me of the idea that an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. It’s also a statement directed at those practitioners of religion who do nothing to advance humanity, but only divide us further. The truth behind religion, what Jesus preached and practiced, was a compassion based on empathy and grace.

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