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bunnyjadwiga

Politics and Forgiving

Nov 29, 2007 13:08

The day after the Amish School shootings in Nickel Mines, an lj-friend of mine was unfortunate enough to post a link to a piece of religious-right propaganda about school shootings that's been going around for the past couple of years. (I was, to put in bluntly, rabid in denouncing that document ( Read more... )

politics, current events

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bytchearse November 29 2007, 18:57:29 UTC

Me too, hon. Me too. :-(

thatpotteryguy November 29 2007, 19:05:20 UTC

I, on the other hand, not being a "good Christian", feel no compulsion whatsoever to forgive. And I won't.

I'm a pagan bunnyjadwiga November 29 2007, 19:29:03 UTC

And not the best of one at that.

But I still subscribe to the theory that forgiveness, by reducing hate, makes the world a better place-- I'm just so *bad* at forgiving.

Re: I'm a pagan thatpotteryguy November 30 2007, 02:47:19 UTC

I don't hate them. Hate is too strong a word. But I am utterly without sympathy or fellow-feeling for them; I could see them rendered extinct and feel nothing at all.

I don't bother with hate. But I am willing to edit certain people out of my reality, as it were.

spikywheel November 29 2007, 19:14:49 UTC

I being a "good Christian" can't STAND what the far right wing does. there are so many places in the Bible that tell us to turn the other cheek, do unto others, serve, lead by example, etc.

Why does that always seem to be forgotten?

pleasantlyevil November 29 2007, 19:40:45 UTC

Cuz it's easier to believe that all you have to do is accept Jesus as your personal savior to get into the kingdom of Heaven. Forgiving and living peacefully and being kind to others, even those who are different than you, is hard work. Too many Christians are far too lazy to do those things.

G.K. Chesterton said it best bunnyjadwiga November 29 2007, 19:42:15 UTC

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."

not strictly true, but still apropos

Re: G.K. Chesterton said it best thatpotteryguy November 30 2007, 02:59:14 UTC

whose Christian ideal? Paul seems to have come out okay, for most of the history of Christianity; "Man is the head of woman", and all that...

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luscious_purple November 29 2007, 19:20:07 UTC

*nods*

MHO on your LJ ;-) bytchearse November 29 2007, 20:14:05 UTC

I'd like to think that when Jesus does return he's gonna look at all these nutballs using His name and say "Who are you?"

JMHO/IMBFOS

BTW, you are doing a wonderful job by example. Hopefully see ya in a few weeks?

Re: MHO on your LJ ;-) bunnyjadwiga November 29 2007, 20:50:03 UTC

* snort *

If Jesus IS gonna be judging at the end, you're absolutely right. He said so. Matthew 25:31-46. One of my favorite verses.