{"id":76993,"date":"2020-07-10T04:54:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=76993"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:16:29","slug":"specks-and-planks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2020\/07\/specks-and-planks.html","title":{"rendered":"Specks and Planks"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2020\/05\/arrogant-thanksgiving.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\" decorated-link\">I shared a somewhat frustrating interaction that I had with Randal Rauser<\/a> not that long ago. Let me share something now that I found especially helpful and which I want to pass on to a wider audience. He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every worldview faces serious objections. Many of us spend a lot of time pointing out the specks in our neighbor\u2019s worldview. Do we have the courage and intellectual honesty to confront the planks in ours?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tentative Apologist (@RandalRauser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandalRauser\/status\/1245710469169418240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">April 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A related thought that I\u2019ve often shared is this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou cannot judge people because they\u00a0sin differently than you\u201d. \u2013 Erykah Badu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, you can judge them, the point being that you\u00a0<em>shouldn\u2019t<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of related interest, here\u2019s a previous post on this topic from a while back:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HoRWU7jyiN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/10\/the-speck-in-the-eye-of-islam.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Speck in the Eye of Islam<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cThe Speck in the Eye of Islam\u201d \u2014 Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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