Is Hating Others Just Judgment?

I saw another one of those T-shirts on a third or fourth grade kid that said "Justice," and I wonder if she even knows the meaning of the word. Where is the T-shirt that says "Mercy?" I haven't seen one of those. Because people need mercy. Justice is related to judgment, specifically God's justice. And if we got that we would all be in big trouble, because we have all broken all of the Ten Commandments. Also, when a lot of people talk about the Ten Commandments, they always seem to forget the first one that says, "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of bondage. You shall not have other gods before me" (Exodus 20:2-3). And, honestly, how many false gods do people serve these days? The main false god we serve in this life is ourselves, first, and our passions next, and on top of the list of passions is what appears to me to be an addiction to hating and judging others. Something so rampant and so blatant, especially on social media, is the practice of judging others, but never willing to judge oneself. So many comments, mostly, but also posts, especially political ones, are so often pointed at someone and telling what their sins are. Paul writes to the church at Rome: " Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, or in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself for you who judge practice the same things" (Romans 2:1) We have all seen the accusations of political figures against their enemies saying more or less the same things: "So-and-so is a threat to democracy," for example. It is so obvious that both sides are accusing the other side of the same things. How can any of these people be taken seriously? This is about all we see on social media, both sides accusing the other one of innumerable offences. What if people stopped judging others all the time, and spent more time judging themselves? The seventh chapter of Matthew is practically all red letters, the words of Jesus himself. "Judge not, that you be not judged," he said. "For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye but do not look at the plank in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:1-4) I have also noticed a lot of times people who are not followers of Christ love to accuse Christians of being judgmental, and yet so often, they are always judging their enemies and pointing fingers, in a word, speaking evil of others and being "hateful and hating others." Paul wrote to Titus, "Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, out according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life" (Titus 3:1-7). Just a little food for thought. I conclude with the words of Jesus in John 3 and Romans 1: "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil" (John 8-19). "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved" (John 3:17). The fact that we were all already judged by the law is something we don't hear every day. But we probably need to be thinking about it and understanding it because that means that an awful lot of people are already condemned, not by Jesus, and not by us who believe in Jesus, but by God's law itself. Romans 1 talks about how we know in our heart that there is a God because God made us with the capacity to know. "...what may be known of God is manifest to them, for since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened: (Romans 1:19-21). So, the two-headed monster, judging and hating, have become two of the most prevalent gods that people serve other than God Himself, and we really have the power to overthrow it, if we will choose to do so.