The Bible speaks of being non-judgmental:
Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' while there is a beam in your own? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. - https://net.bible.org/?q=cgi-bin/netbible.pl&book=mat&chapter=7#!bible/Matthew+7
Yet this beam in the eye is rooted in something that the Bible barely mentions. It is the cause of much of the suffering in life today. Yet there is relief, and it comes not out of the Bible, but from the Buddha himself.
"The pleasure and joy that arise in dependence on the eye: this is the gratification in the eye. That the eye is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change: this is the danger in the eye. The removal and abandonment of desire and lust from the eye: this is the escape from the eye."
-Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha"
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