Sterilizing God

Does God Judge? Folks often tell us, when arguing with someone over a difficult question (typically a question which violates long accepted, ahem, judgments about right and wrong) that we cannot judge. They attempt to reinforce this idea by judging - sorry, arguing - that God tells us not to judge. Indeed, they assert, a loving God would never judge. My issue at that point is that God clearly judges. Good judgments, yes, often, but doesn't He also make what are profoundly negative judgments?

Obviously He does. The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 25, has three straight parables where the foolish or sinful are condemned, ending with Christ's explanation about the sheep and the goats being separated (on Judgment Day, as it were). He calls the Pharisees a 'Brood of Vipers'. He expels the moneychangers from the Temple. He cursed a fig tree, for crying out loud, causing it to shrivel and die. God judges, and sometimes in the negative. It's a simple as that. Why bother with any parables, or those pesky Commandments, if He wasn't meaning to hold us to a standard?

To assert that God doesn't judge is to sterilize Him. If He can't call something bad, I don't see where He might call anything good. There's no worthwhile reason to honor such an impotent being.