Maybe God nudged you, maybe you studied your way out, maybe you just got tired of it. You moved past hating and judging churches you disagreed with as a child. You realized the Kingdom was bigger than your little group. But, have you traded your Pharisaical card in for a Sadducees card?
The question is, who are you hating or judging these days, or have you really moved on from your roots? Who is the target of your contempt & distain, or have you given up on trying to fix everyone else and you are ready to get to work on the real need for change, you, changing yourself?
It's easy to think we are progressing and growing spiritually, when in reality all we have done is traded or exchanged the set of people we are critiquing. Judging is judging, shaming is shaming, it doesn't matter if your scorn is aimed at the people outside your circle of believers or at the people who look and act just like you do.
Harsh, critical, condemnation, dished out smugly is still ugly & unloving no matter who you're aiming it at. Simply shedding ultra-conservative fundamentalism only to hate & condemn people stuck in their supposed ignorance isn't progress, it's procrastination -- it's holding on to our immature feelings of superiority, the ones we tried hard to run from in the first place.
Who you complain about the most says a lot about your state of mind. Don't "grow up" to be just another hater.
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